Zjili explores sisterhood, exploitative capitalism, ambition, and girl‑child subjugation, moving fluidly between rural and ...

A Mama Deola Wedding Story pretends to be a film for two hours while remaining, in every structural and creative sense, a ...

The jury praised The Spectacular Death of Prisca for its blend of melodrama, action, and comedy, as well as its distinctive approach to family dynamics. By Joseph Jonathan Nigerian filmmaker Kaelo ...

House rent tribunals exist on paper but not in reality. Some provisions are outdated or vague. There is, for instance, the N100,000 fine in ...

I hope that more film festivals start to see the fullness of the African experience. This is because African cinema can be ...

What I keep returning to is that none of these five stories on the 2026 Caine Prize Shortlist asks to be read as ...

A slate of 16 African films is set to screen as part of African Horizons, at the 43rd Tehran International Short Film ...

Son of Elvis is a powerful introduction to an artiste with a remarkably broad and expressive artistic vocabulary, while for ...

Perhaps the most fitting way to remember Olu Jacobs is not simply as a king, chief, patriarch or veteran actor. It is to remember him as a craftsman. A ma ...

Congo Boy is grittier than it is polished, but its grit has lustre, and Dembeasset’s compelling performance provides an anchor that steadies its 94-minute ...

The misconception that men cannot be sexually abused, assaulted, or molested by women is entrenched in gender stereotypes ...

In La Maison du Vent, Cameroonian writer-director Auguste Bernard Kouemo Yanghu captures both the tragic cost of African ...