A Postmodern Bricolage
What we learn from the film “Concerning Violence,” about Franz Fanon’s writings and ideas
Film
Typical Colombians
"Manos Sucias," produced by Spike Lee, is set in Buenaventura, Colombia’s biggest city on the Pacific Ocean and also the country’s biggest port. The city is 90% black.
Black President
Kudzanai Chiurai, the Zimbabwean-born South African artist known for his ironic commentaries on postcolonial politics, is the subject of a documentary film by BLK JKS guitarist Mpumelelo Mcata.
Under the radar
Guinea Bissau’s Sana Na N’Hada is one of Africa’s most important filmmakers today.
5 Questions for Filmmaker, Djo Munga
The Congolese cites the crime film, 'Carlito's Way,' starring Al Paciono, as a project he wished he had made. You can see the inspiration in "Viva Riva," his breakout film.
Why is this the story being told now?
The selective memory of 'Plot for Peace,' documentary film about South Africa's transition.
On The Way to School
A new documentary film offers a dignified and moving counterweight to how we in the West think - in static, sometimes pathologizing images - of kids elsewhere.
The Wizard of Zimbabwe
What do you when your 70 year old South African father wants to meet Robert Mugabe for his birthday. Make a film about it.
5 Questions for a Filmmaker: Hawa Essuman
Essuman believes that confining any storyteller to labels like "African stories" is a disservice to the story and the one telling it.
The West are not those most affected by terrorism
Malian director Abderrahmane Sissako’s film "Timbuktu" complicates the Jihadist narrative in Africa.
5 Questions for a Filmmaker: Jim Chuchu
The Nairobi-based filmmaker and musician aims to bring stories, pictures and sound together to create something immutable on the screen.
Maputo’s masked Mapiko dancers
A new film about how Mozambican youth express and negotiate the country's post-socialist modernity through dance.
Roger Young’s ‘Keys, Money, Phone’ explores the heart of young whiteness in Cape Town
Something is shifting in South Africa. White privilege is a hot topic, specifically in print and
Your concepts of African belonging
The El Foukr R'Assembly collective wants to challenge dominant ideas of African identity and cultural diffusion on both sides of the Sahara.
5 Questions for a Filmmaker: Newton Aduaka
For Aduaka, cinema is important if it illuminates or resonates something that makes up the essence of this thing called human nature.
The first feature film out of the DRC in over 28 years
Viva Riva! director, Djo Tunda Wa Munga, on African self-representation, and opening a production company in "chaos."
The Triptych: On the personal stories of three of contemporary art’s freshest black voices
Ever wonder what inspires an artist to paste red-lipped Cheshire cat grins over the mouths of
5 Questions for Filmmaker: Branwen Okpako
Okpako wants to show people as they see themselves but in a way that others can recognize themselves as well.
5 Questions for a Filmmaker: Kivu Ruhorahoza
Ruhorahoza wished he made "Sans Soleil" by Chris Marker: "The film is a good example of the work of a filmmaker who has reached maturity and an artist who is truly free."
Mohamed so-and-so from such-and-such
Ridley Scott's "Exodus" and deeply rooted issues of bigotry and racism in Hollywood.