"Let the star through!" Screen Daily has revealed the first official trailer for an African movie called Congo Boy, made by ...

Former Showmax publicist KEVIN KRIEDEMANN guides us through his best (free) YouTube viewing choices on the continent.

Chuko and Arie Esiri's "Clarissa" is the second Nigerian film to ever play Cannes. With Neon as its global distributor, they ...

Does the absence of African films in the main competition at this year’s Cannes Film Festival point to a glass ceiling? Or is ...

The Croisette will host a star-studded movie by Nigerian-born twins, the first film by a Rwandan director in the Official Selection, a landmark co-pro and the latest from a Moroccan auteur.

Netflix began its Africa operations in South Africa in 2016. When the US streaming giant announced it was setting up shop in Nigeria in 2020, many west African film-makers, writers, artists and media ...

Mo Abudu's 'Her Perfect Life' and 'Iyawo Mi' explore topics rarely discussed in Nigerian cinema. By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief In Her Perfect Life, Onajite Johnson-Ibrahim (played by Pearl ...

CANEX Creations CEO Osahon Akpata has outlined his strategic vision for how the pan-African institution can boost the profile ...

Considered the biggest and important platform of its kind for documentary films on the continent, the Encounters South African International Documentary Festival continues a tradition of spotlighting ...

A recent book, Queer Bodies in African Films, studies the growing LGBTIQ+ output from film-makers around the continent, from Morocco to South Africa. In the process it analyses what queerness is and ...

OPB’s Paul Marshall II sat down to talk with co-director Eugénie Jolivett Fontana about the festival. The festival runs through March 7. The following interview has been edited for clarity. Eugénie ...

Does the absence of African films in the main competition at this year's Cannes Film Festival point to a glass ceiling? Or is African cinema still slowly but surely finding its way to the top table?