
Are there enough African films
This new batch of films are set in Guinea Bissau, Ghana, Sudan, Morocco, Kenya, South Africa and Mauritius.
This new batch of films are set in Guinea Bissau, Ghana, Sudan, Morocco, Kenya, South Africa and Mauritius.
A group of black women, from Africa and its diaspora, decide to mess with Paris Fashion Week. Was it worth it? Did anyone care?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOQDPR5cR7o ‘One Man’s Show’ is the latest film by Newton I. Aduaka (probably best known for
The Nigerian poet and critic, Odia Ofeimun, on how Nollywood depicts traditional culture and religion.
Here are another 10 films we’re hoping to see in the (near) future. First, three “fiction”
Number 3 in our series of short descriptions of ten new African films to watch out for.
‘Grand comme le Baobab’ (“Tall as the baobab tree”) is a film told through the voice of
On Thursday, July 26, the Michael Stevenson Gallery in Cape Town had an opening: Mo(u)rning. Photographic
The posters are tied to the Ghanaian and Nollywood film industries that emerged in the late 1980s.
http://youtu.be/tLyhZlgWIpM This is a random selection of ten films we don’t know much about, yet, but
I participated in Sight & Sound's once-a-decade poll of the greatest films of all time. I included at least two African films: "Borom Sarrett" and "Mapantsula." Hopefully, they make the cut.
While some in the virtual AIAC office have been putting together their summer lists, I thought
http://vimeo.com/26876381 This is a bit older, but still worth watching. Above is a short clip from
Five filmmaking collectives from the African continent that are reinterpreting and reinvigorating notions of collaboration and distribution.
Africa-focused sci-fi films redirects science fiction so that it becomes a fissure in which new subjects can be seen and heard. One question, however, is who makes these films.
A film series in London explores what it would mean imbuing Africa with extra-terrestrial powers. We speak to the curators, Al Cameron and Nav Haq.
'Dear Mandela' questions whether the history of South Africa's ruling party obscures its corruption and immoralities. And what kinds of movements it would take to challenge the ANC's power head on.
Denzel Washington's new thriller, "Safe House," plays out in Cape Town, South Africa. You mostly can't tell. That's deliberate.
A recurring theme in director Akin Omotoso's films is the fraught postapartheid relationship between Nigerian migrants and their South African hosts.
The fantasies of Blackwater, the Michigan firm of mercenaries and as contractor to imperial powers. Also, how it employs Africa as a rhetorical device to get more business.