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Tanzania makes first international feature Oscar entry in 21 years with ‘Tug Of War’ (exclusive) 72s1t
Country’s second-ever Oscar entry.
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Prime Video signs first film and TV deal with African filmmaker 72261v
Jade Osiberu directed ‘Gangs Of Lagos’ which recently screened at TIFF.
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‘The King’s Horseman’: Toronto Review 333u2u
Biyi Bandele’s bustling, vibrant final film is an adaptation of Wole Soyinka’s acclaimed anti-colonial play
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Somalia’s first ever Oscar submission ‘The Gravedigger’s Wife’ secures UK deal (exclusive) 4u4wv
The title premiered in Cannes Critics’ Week in 2021.
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Realness Institute, Series Mania, Storyboard Collective unveil participants in AuthenticA lab (exclusive) 3e4i1b
Kenya’s Angela Wamai, South Africa’s Chantel Clark, Ghana’s Jessica Hagan and Nigeria’s Tony Sebastian Ukpo have been selected.
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First trailer for Giornate degli Autori Algerian costume drama ‘The Last Queen’ (exclusive) n5u71
Set in Algiers in 1516, the film is being described as Algeria’s first costume drama.
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Ghana to host African cinema convention in bid to boost screens across continent 4t2ed
Inaugural Meta Cinema Forum Africa takes place in November.
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EIFF reveals winners of East Africa emerging talent programme, The Story Circle (exclusive) 1o5t5d
The Story Circle programme is for female screenwriters and filmmakers from East Africa.
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NewsBela Tarr to receive Cairo film festival lifetime honour 6z3mv
Hungarian auteur will also mentor young Egyptian filmmakers at the festival.
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‘Half Of A Yellow Sun’ director Biyi Bandele dies aged 54 64r1e
Latest feature from Nigerian writer-director due to premiere at TIFF.
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Netflix ties with South African filmmaker Mandlakayise Walter Dube 1h375z
Creative partnership signals streamer’s growing presence in Africa.
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Eight works in progress from Africa and Middle East selected for Venice Final Cut 6x3x1w
The selection includes Amjad Al Rasheed’s Inshallah A Boy.
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Oxbelly Lab mentors 13 international projects from promising screenwriters and directors 212uj
Willem Dafoe and Michael Weber among creative advisors helping artistic director Athina Rachel Tsangari.
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Berlinale calls for acquittal of Zimbabwean writer-director Tsitsi Dangarembga 2ca1z
Zimbabwean author and filmmaker was a member of the international jury at the 2022 Berlinale.
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‘Nayola’: Annecy Review 475g2i
Stunning feature animation debut depicts the horror of war from a female perspective
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Disney+ launches in Middle East and North Africa 13t3p
Streamer rolls out in 16 markets across the region.
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Algerian film industry calls for action over axed film fund 4ur12
Directors and producers say “Algerian cinema is at risk of death” as a result.
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Pavillon Afriques head calls for greater African presence in Cannes 26i65
Barclais is keen for African filmmakers and execs to come to Cannes and raise the profile of the industries of Sub-Saharan Africa.
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‘Under The Fig Trees’: Cannes Review 306s3b
Erige Sehiri makes her fiction debut with this gentle human drama set in a Tunisian orchard
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‘Harka’: Cannes Review 6r389
Adam Bessa excels as a Tunisian street seller amidst the Arab Spring upheaval in this heartfelt dramatic debut
