The Croisette will host a star-studded movie by Nigerian-born twins, the first film by a Rwandan director in the Official Selection, a landmark co-pro and the latest from a Moroccan auteur.

For the past two decades, African Film Festival has partnered with the Department of African & African American Studies, Film & Media Studies, and the African Students Association at Washington ...

Following a successful international festival and theatrical run, Son of the Soil is now playing on Netflix across the African continent, bringing the acclaimed action thriller to millions of viewers ...

The $50 million fund founded by former diplomat Akunna Cook unveils nine projects from more than 2,000 submissions as it begins channeling global capital into Africa’s rapidly expanding screen ...

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Gayle Anderson reports on the 2026 Pan African Film & Arts Festival (PAFF), founded in 1992, it began as a cultural response to the civil unrest that rocked Los Angeles that same year. During the past ...

Nile Entertainment, the Nigerian distribution company launched last year by veteran film executive Moses Babatope, has signed a first-look deal with Action Xtreme, the genre label of the U.K.’s ...

EXCLUSIVE: Razorman, a live-action feature based on the graphic novel series by writer-artist Bill Masuku, published by Kugali Media, is in development. The Zimbabwe-set superhero project hails from ...

Netflix began its Africa operations in South Africa in 2016. When the US streaming giant announced it was setting up shop in Nigeria in 2020, many west African film-makers, writers, artists and media ...

Balufu Bakuba Director, centre du cinema in DRC (extreme right) and Senagal's Germain Coly (centre) take part in a panel discussion on cinema policies in Africa at the first edition of the Timimoun ...