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All Africa articles – Page 2
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NewsLocarno Pro’s Open Doors to turn spotlight on African talent for next four years
Locarno’s co-production and talent development initiative is to focus on the African continent for its next cycle.
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FeaturesOscars international feature race 2025 guide: the contenders from Africa and the Middle East
Two spots on the Oscars shortlist of 15 last year for African and Middle East countries represented a modest improvement on recent years — but entries this year are down. Screen surveys a region that has made halting progress.
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NewsMarrakech bolsters distribution-focused initiatives for 2024 edition (exclusive)
Festival will invite a broad selection of global distributors and expand Atlas Distribution Awards
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Reviews‘Spring Came On Laughing’: Cairo Review
Heightened Cairo-set melodrama features five tales of fracturing female relationships
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NewsRed Sea Souk market includes Asmae El Moudir, CJ Obasi projects
Moudir’s ‘Holy Cow’ follows a truck driver transporting cattle in Morocco.
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Reviews‘Red Path’: Thessaloniki Review
A Tunisian teenager encounters violent extremism in this drama based on the 2015 killing of Mabrouk Soltani
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NewsMarrakech to honour Sean Penn, David Cronenberg, Naima Elmcherqui
Moroccan actress Elmcherqui passed away on October 5 this year.
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News‘Barakat’, Triggerfish producers among latest Realness scheme participants (exclusive)
Ephraim Gordon produced South Africa’s 2022 Oscar submission ‘Barakat’.
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News“Kenya is losing $2.2m a day to piracy”: Challenges, opportunities for African distributors in spotlight
The debate took place at the International Film Distribution Summit (IFDS) in Cologne.
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NewsSenegal selects Mati Diop’s Golden Bear-winner ‘Dahomey’ as Oscar submission
It marks the second time French-Senegalese director Diop has been chosen for the Oscars after her debut feature ’Atlantics’.
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NewsRealness Institute selects writers from Uganda, Ethiopia, Kenya and South Africa for AuthenticA Series Lab (exclusive)
The six-month lab supports writers to develop their series ideas into pilot scripts.
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Reviews‘Don’t Let’s Go To The Dogs Tonight’: Toronto Review
Actor Embeth Davidtz makes her directorial debut with this adaption of a memoir set in racist 1980s Rhodesia
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Reviews‘Aicha’: Venice Review
Mehdi M. Barsaoui directs Fatma Sfar in an electric performance as a Tunisian woman on an unexpected journey of reinvention
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Reviews‘Perfumed With Mint’: Venice Review
A decaying Egyptian city teems with ghosts both literal and metaphorical in this meditative debut
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NewsNetflix’s South Africa slate includes features ‘Happiness Is’ and ‘Umjolo: The Gone Girl’
Netflix’s vice president of content for the Middle East and Africa, Ben Amadasun, revealed the selection at MIP Africa.
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NewsRealness Institute unveils next cohort of Southern Africa-Locarno Industry Academy (exclusive)
It is the third edition of the training programme for African film and TV professionals.
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NewsMichaela Coel teams with BBC, HBO, A24 on drama series ‘First Day On Earth’
The 10-part series is made in association with A24
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NewsVenice Final Cut lab projects include Morad Mostafa’s ‘Aisha Can’t Fly Away’
Seven work-in-progress films will participate in the Venice Production Bridge.
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Reviews‘Searching For Amani’: Raindance Review
Doc follows a 13 year-old boy’s quest to track down the murderers of his father in Kenya’s Laikipia county
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NewsSalim Kechiouche to shoot ‘Wolf Dreams’ in Algeria as country makes big Cannes comeback (exclusive)
An Algerian delegation is in Cannes to promote the country as an international partner and locations hub.
