• Tom Devriendt

• Basia Cummings

Five filmmaking collectives from the African continent that are reinterpreting and reinvigorating notions of collaboration and distribution.

• Evelyn Owen

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.

• Basia Cummings

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.

• Basia Cummings

'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.

• Loren A Lynch

Denzel Washington's new thriller, "Safe House," plays out in Cape Town, South Africa. You mostly can't tell. That's deliberate.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

A recurring theme in director Akin Omotoso's films is the fraught postapartheid relationship between Nigerian migrants and their South African hosts.

• Megan Eardley

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.

• Orlando Reade

Science fiction as genre offers the opportunity to African artists to consider Western cartographies of the future as fictions in their own right.

• Basia Cummings

A film about a Sudanese migrant to America explores a general fact of contemporary existence.

• Basia Cummings

A remarkable amount of new films in recent months have used migration, detention and illegal sea crossings as their subject matter.

• Basia Cummings

The film, "Come Back, Africa," first released in 1959, challenged how white liberals imagined black people or tried to shape their struggles in South Africa.

• Tom Devriendt

• Elliot Ross

The video, "African Men. Hollywood Stereotypes," made by an American NGO, is part of the "Brand Africa" discourse that's all the rage now.

• Basia Cummings

Djibril Diop Mambéty's film "Touki Bouki" is an excellent example of how the contemporary can be read through the (re)construction of myths and narratives from a collective memory.

• Orlando Reade

One of the striking facts of Nabil Ayouch's film is that Israelis love the land and the Palestinians love it too.

• Lara N. Dotson-Renta

Younger generations of artists, many immigrants of African origin, are reconfiguring the arts in France on their own terms.

• Basia Cummings

Abderrahmane Sissako’s oblique suggestion of what a ‘socialist friendship’ might be in his first film, "October" (1993) set in a then-declining Soviet Union.

• Basia Cummings

Ousmane Sembene's "Xala" (1974) is a powerful political narrative. At times edging toward the surreal, at others an acute depiction of the complexity of the freshly independent Senegal.