Film Africa (1): ‘The Beautiful Game’
This documentary film about football in Africa is actually not that terrible once you get past the
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There’s an African film festival in Scotland
Africa in Motion, Scotland’s African Film Festival, kicks off in Edinburgh and Glasgow today. Here’s a
Is Mads Brügger a journalist?
The Danish filmmaker believes his work contains qualities missing from most conventional journalism. Especially journalism dealing with Africa
The Kenyan Finns
What would happen if you made a film about a key figure in Finnish history and cast Kenyan actors in the lead roles?
10 African films to watch out for, N°7
I was surprised to find very few films by African directors in this year’s programme of
Are there enough African films
This new batch of films are set in Guinea Bissau, Ghana, Sudan, Morocco, Kenya, South Africa and Mauritius.
Interrupting Paris Fashion Week
A group of black women, from Africa and its diaspora, decide to mess with Paris Fashion Week. Was it worth it? Did anyone care?
10 films to watch out for, N°5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOQDPR5cR7o ‘One Man’s Show’ is the latest film by Newton I. Aduaka (probably best known for
Nollywood–Nigeria’s Mirror
The Nigerian poet and critic, Odia Ofeimun, on how Nollywood depicts traditional culture and religion.
10 African films to watch out for, N°4
Here are another 10 films we’re hoping to see in the (near) future. First, three “fiction”
Discovering a country through film
Number 3 in our series of short descriptions of ten new African films to watch out for.
10 African films to watch out for, N°2
‘Grand comme le Baobab’ (“Tall as the baobab tree”) is a film told through the voice of
Zanele Muholi’s “Mo(u)rning” | Exhibition
On Thursday, July 26, the Michael Stevenson Gallery in Cape Town had an opening: Mo(u)rning. Photographic
Ghanaian film posters and viewing cultures
The posters are tied to the Ghanaian and Nollywood film industries that emerged in the late 1980s.
10 African films to watch out for
http://youtu.be/tLyhZlgWIpM This is a random selection of ten films we don’t know much about, yet, but
The Decade of Film
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.
Winter List: Festivals in Southern Africa
While some in the virtual AIAC office have been putting together their summer lists, I thought
Silent Elections
http://vimeo.com/26876381 This is a bit older, but still worth watching. Above is a short clip from
Chop Cassava
Five filmmaking collectives from the African continent that are reinterpreting and reinvigorating notions of collaboration and distribution.
Utopia Unstuck
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.