Festivals

The NFVF calls on South African postgraduate film students to apply to attend Nigeria’s big film festival.

African documentaries at the 2024 festival in Amsterdam are not as many as IDFA hoped for, said artistic director Orwa Nyrabia.

Rungano Nyoni’s On Becoming A Guinea Fowl premiered at Cannes and has now won the Swiss festival’s biggest award.

Somalia film The Village Next To Paradise, by Mo Harawe, has received another international honour.

Chosen out of over 270 projects, “1 Woman 1 Bra” will be heading to Europe for a coveted filmmaking workshop.

Mali’s Abderrahmane Sissako and Ghana’s John Akomfrah will be in conversation at the 2024 edition of the Film Africa event in the UK.

Dahomey and On Becoming A Guinea Fowl will screen at the American Film Institute Festival.

A space-themed documentary from the Congo Democratic Republic is one of 13 projects to receive support from the IDFA Bertha Fund.

African filmmakers are welcome to submit their projects ahead of the 2025 Tribeca Festival.

Acclaimed projects from Senegal, Zambia, and Somalia will be screening at the Busan International Film Festival in South Korea.