The wildly imaginative and highly resourceful filmmaker behind Uganda's ultra low budget studio Wakaliwood describes his own cinematic education, travelling to China to shoot Shaolin monks, and the next generation of African filmmakers.
By Fred Onyango
Philippe Lacôte’s multi-layered, prison-set theatrical extravaganza is a rich and original take on national myth-making.
By Leila Latif
A new restoration of his long out-of-print 1968 film Mandabi offers cause to celebrate the late Senegalese maverick.
Director Peter Murimi discusses capturing the experience of a young gay man in I Am Samuel.
By Leila Latif
A new documentary gives a voice to the silenced natives in Joseph Conrad’s colonialist novel.
The British-Nigerian actor wants to bring more localised stories to a global audience.
By Sarah Jilani
These rising stars are paying homage to their cinematic heritage while breaking exciting new ground.
By David Opie
Not all heroes wear capes, but the pint-sized protagonists of Likarion Wainaina’s debut feature certainly do.
Meet the East African VJs whose unusual craft represents an art form in its own right.
The director is launching a vital new initiative called The African Film Heritage Project.
This year’s Film Africa event showed that African people are still not free to define their own identity abroad.
The Pearl of Africa highlights the everyday struggle of transgender people – and offers a beacon of hope.
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