
Film as Allegory
The thirteenth regular list of new films with African themes; it includes a number of films made exclusively for online consumption.

The thirteenth regular list of new films with African themes; it includes a number of films made exclusively for online consumption.

Black South Africans' concurrent lives of dread and poverty contradicted the commercialism and profits that went with 2010 World Cup.

The Bond franchise has a white casting problem, but at least it has made peace with Britain and its institutions' marginal position within world affairs.

The eleventh edition of African films we'd like to get on people's radars. We can't guarantee that these films will be available everywhere.

Can young Angolan activists inspired by Angola's underground rap scene take on a political elite that has ruled for decades?

Art South Africa me asked to pick my "Best Six;" basically my "favorite (six) things from the last six months."

In Alain Gomis's "Tey', 'Aujourd'hui," a man lives the last day of his life.

A Dutch comedy about an interracial relationship may shape Dutch views of black people there in very negative ways from which they may not recover for a while.

Director Andrew Okoko's "The Assassin's Practice" tampers with the tempo of melodrama. It's also Nollywood's response to Soderbergh's "Bubble."

The film, "Veejays," comes across as an earnest attempt to learn about the ways people are remixing dominant culture industries to make their own.


An exploration of China's presence in Zambia, including suspicion, tensions and possibilities for collaboration.

The Danish filmmaker believes his work contains qualities missing from most conventional journalism. Especially journalism dealing with Africa

What would happen if you made a film about a key figure in Finnish history and cast Kenyan actors in the lead roles?