All Africa articles – Page 17
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NewsiRep explores digital age for documentaries
Lagos, Nigeria’s iRep, one of Africa’s few documentary-specific film festivals, has closed its fifth anniversary edition showing more than 40 films curated around themes and issues in Africa.
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NewsSeyi Babatope shooting Nollywood’s first family film
EXCLUSIVE: Director also plans to shoot sequel to When Love Happens in London later this year.
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NewsWarda to screen at EFM
Egypt’s first-ever found footage horror film to screen tomorrow [Feb 10].
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NewsBreathe team sings with Beggar’s Opera
EXCLUSIVE: Partners behind Breathe Umphefumlo reteaming on new slate of films.
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NewsLora-Mungai, Matatu form African studio Restless Global
Producers Marie Lora-Mungai and Tendeka Matatu are merging their assets to create Restless Global, a development, finance, production, distribution and exhibition studio for African content both within and outside Africa.
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FeaturesAbderrahmane Sissako, Timbuktu
The spread of Islamic fundamentalism across Africa has flung many ordinary Muslims’ lives into turmoil. Timbuktu director Abderrahmane Sissako tells Elbert Wyche why he wanted to express their story
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NewsMelbourne wins best picture in Cairo
The Cairo International Film Festival ended its 36th year with a glitzy ceremony [pictured] below the ancient pyramids on Tuesday.
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NewsNick Broomfield readies Tanzania shoot
EXCLUSIVE: Nick Broomfield is lining up a 2015 shoot near Lake Victoria in Tanzania for his BBC four-parter The Catastrophist.
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NewsNew Mandela film festival to show 400 films
The new Mandela International Film Festival is gearing up for its inaugural edition to run Dec 3-13, 2015 in Nelson Mandela Bay in South Africa’s Eastern Cape.
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NewsIsabelle Huppert to head Marrakech jury
French actress known for roles in The Piano Teacher and Amour to preside over festival jury.
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NewsKenya bans Toronto LGBT hit
Stories of Our Lives deemed “contrary to Kenya’s norms and values”.
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NewsUK production wraps shoot in Cape Verde
BAFTA nominee Robbie McCallum makes feature debut on drama Atlantic Heart.
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NewsLocarno opens doors to northern Africa
The 13th edition of Locarno’s Open Doors co-production forum to focus on four countries in the Maghreb.
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NewsSnow Queen inks Australia/NZ deal
EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures to release in Aus/NZ following Toronto deal.
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NewsKite Runner star launches Cairo cinematheque
EXCLUSIVE: British Egyptian actor Khalid Abdalla talks new film venue in Egypt.
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FeaturesLocarno 2014: a return to Africa
In her first year as head of Locarno Film Festival’s co-production lab Open Doors, Ananda Scepka brings the focus back to Sub-Saharan Africa. Martin Blaney discovers why
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NewsYellow Sun passed by Nigeria censors
Biyi Bandele’s adaptation of the best-selling novel will be shown in cinemas in Nigera from Aug 1.