Festivals

Four short commentaries on African documentary filmmaking as gathered from IDFA, the prestigious documentary festival in the Netherlands.

Locarno Film Festival’s Open Doors programme is now open to Africa and its filmmakers.

On Becoming A Guinea Fowl and Hanami, by African filmmakers based in the west, will be screened at the Surreal 16 Film Festival in Nigeria.

Anglela Wanjiku Wamai’s Enkop (The Soil) is the sole project from an African filmmaker on the Dutch grant’s list of 12.

The Nigeria filmmaker has had a festival premiere for his latest, a follow-up to the award-winning Daughters of Chibok.

Ifeoma N Chukwuogo’s Phoenix Fury won two of the 2024 AFRIFF’s biggest awards: Best Director and Best Film.

The AFRIFF party can be hard to get into, even for filmmakers. And that’s the point. Kind of.

The two Nigerian films to screen at the Toronto International Film Festival will appear at the Red Sea Film Festival in Saudi Arabia.

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.