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FeaturesFive Locarno Open Doors directors to look out for
The participants make for an instant list of international talent to watch.
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FeaturesIn profile: Locarno’s 2026 Open Doors Projects
Six projects from Ghana, Mozambique, Nigeria, Somalia, Tanzania and Uganda are looking for international partners through Locarno Pro’s Open Projects Hub.
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FeaturesAfrican producers at Open Doors 2026 talk tenacity, resilience and innovation
Chances to meet fellow African producers remain rare and precious.
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FeaturesHow Open Doors is helping to build audiences for African films in and outside Africa
The Locarno initiative aims to provide a meeting point for African filmmakers and create opportunities for equitable coproductions,
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NewsAlgeria’s Sofia Djama, UK-Jordanian Bassel Ghandour selected for Final Cut in Venice lab
The work-in-progress lab runs from September 6-8.
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NewsSuzannah Mirghani’s ‘Cotton Queen’ among features selected for Locarno’s Open Doors Screenings
Sudanese director’s feature is one of eight features and five shorts selected for programme focused on African continent.
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FeaturesTaika Waititi, ‘Jail Time Records’ filmmakers talk Tribeca-winning prison doc
”As an inmate, that opportunity and the recording studio is the beginning of freedom.”
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NewsLocarno unveils partners and participants for first Open Doors Connect programme
Programme sees foundations, film institutions, and organisations sponsor industry professionals from Global South.
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NewsUn Certain Regard prize-winner ‘Congo Boy’ scores key deals for The Party
EXCLUSIVE: Rafiki Fariala’s fiction debut heading to Germany and Austria, Brazil, Norway and Denmark.
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NewsLocarno’s Open Doors unveils projects, producers and directors for Africa-focused 2026 edition
Open Doors programme is part of the festival’s industry strand Locarno Pro and runs from August 5-10.
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NewsStudiocanal, Sun Africa Group sign three-year South African theatrical distribution deal
Sun Africa Group will theatrically distribute Studiocanal’s English-language slate including ’Pressure’ and ‘Ink’.
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Reviews‘Ben’Imana’ review: Evocative debut delivers a haunting tale of post-genocide Rwanda
Marie-Clémentine Dusabejambo’s Un Certain Regard title is set against Rwanda’s post-genocide gacaca courts
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Reviews‘Clarissa’ review: Sophie Okonedo, David Oyelowo anchor bold Lagos-set ‘Mrs Dalloway’ adaptation
The Esiri brothers’ Cannes Directors’ Fortnight title relocate Virginia Woolf’s potent themes to modern Nigeria
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Reviews‘Congo Boy’ review: Central African Republic debut is a warm, humane portrait of survival
Rafiki Fariala draws on his own experiences as a Congolese refugee for this authentic Un Certain Regard title
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NewsReinvent Yellow Sales picks up Stelana Kliris’ Cypriot-UK-Greek drama ‘Apart’
EXCLUSIVE: Film spans continents and cultures during political upheaval in the 1970s.
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FeaturesWhy Nigeria's Kunle Afolayan believes YouTube is key to the future of African filmmaking
Afolayan is a leading proponent of the New Nigerian Cinema movement, with credits including Netflix hit ’Aníkúlápó’.
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NewsSuzannah Mirghani’s prize-winning ‘Cotton Queen’ picked up for UK-Ireland
EXCLUSIVE: The Venice Critics’ Week premiere will be released theatrically in the autumn.
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Reviews‘Out Laws’ review: Thoughtful doc explores the impact of colonial anti-gay laws in Namibia and beyond
The debut feature of filmmakers Lexi Powner and James Lewis premieres in BFI Flare
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NewsRapman, Trevor Noah projects among first Next Narrative Africa Fund film and TV slate
$50m in content funding to be deployed over five years.
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NewsAfrica’s Realness Institute appoints new board, advisory council
Four-person board will be supported by nine-person advisory council.