
African cinema into the future
In the era of market-driven streaming, what are the pitfalls and potentials for African cinema?

In the era of market-driven streaming, what are the pitfalls and potentials for African cinema?

Filmmaker Tolulope Itegboje humanizes the maligned area boys of Nigeria's commercial capital; presenting them with an opportunity to share their stories.

An interview with Kate Gondwe, Founder and President of Dedza Films, on a groundbreaking distribution initiative committed to supporting the next wave of emerging filmmakers and communities.

Revisiting the films of Malian-born author and filmmaker Manthia Diawara.

In the Nigerian film 'La Femme Anjola,' which delights with brilliant performances, no one is exactly who they seem.

The film Adú justly calls attention to Europe’s closed borders, but neglects to examine why people are migrating from Africa.

Muammar Gaddafi occupies a contested space in the histories of postcolonial Africa. What about his Libyan opponents?

Mexican American director John Gutierrez new film, set in Cape Town, South Africa, touches on colonialism, displacement, and man’s complicated relationship with nature.

An interview with the filmmakers, Ousmane Samassekou and Aïcha Macky, about their films: two stunning documentaries creating new narratives about migration.

A film about young Rwandan-Canadian creates more questions than it answers, particularly about identification, belonging, and memory.

Episode #39 of AIAC Talk is about exile: a new film on a Libyan dissident and a new exhibition on the black experience. Watch it live Tuesday on YouTube.

The presence of successful female writers, directors, and producers set Ethiopia's film industry apart from Hollywood, Bollywood, and the rest of world cinema.

The intimate connection between the horror unleashed on Europe's Jews and the preceding centuries of atrocities perpetrated by the "Enlightened" West on those they colonized and enslaved.

Amy Jephta and Ephraim Gordon have written and directed a noir TV series that evokes nostalgia and the tension and violence of Cape Town’s nightlife.

The film "Finding Sally" grapples with Ethiopia's past, but may romanticize its present.

A new film by South African director Nomawonga Khumalo represents the contradictions and nuances of black women’s interior lives.

A novel and Netflix film about Spanish colonialism in Equatorial Guinea raises questions about appropriation and storytelling.

A new documentary focuses on using the soil’s carbon absorbent properties to solve the climate change problem.

Working-class men try unsuccessfully to integrate themselves into new economies in the films of Ousmane Sembene and Mrinal Sen.
