All Africa articles
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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.
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FeaturesSata Cissokho on how Berlin's World Cinema Fund is bringing together Global South filmmakers with Euro producers
WCF support goes directly to the local production rather than the European minority co-producer.
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NewsIdris Elba on how building “practical pathways” for African filmmakers will help diversify the industry
Elba is an exec producer on Berlinale Forum documentary ‘Crocodile’, directed by five Nigerian YouTubers and NZ filmmaker Pietra Brettkelly.
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Reviews‘Chronicles From The Siege’ review: Arabic-language debut feature is intense tapestry of life, death and courage
Palestinian-Syrian director Abdallah Alkhabtib’s Berlin Perspectives title is fuelled by its performances
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NewsBêtes Sauvages, Lunar Pictures producers among Matchmakers Global South lab cohort
EXCLUSIVE: Lab includes 10 features from UK producers looking for international partners in Global South.
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NewsSteve Toussaint, Sanaa Lathan to lead C.J. Obasi’s psychological drama ‘A Blue Butterfly’
EXCLUSIVE: Film will start production next month in UK and Rwanda.