With Difficulty Comes Ease director Akorede Azeez alongside producer Fulfilment Fuchi Nwaturuocha and screenwriter-director Hajarat Alli have been selected as part of an Africa No Filter cohort of filmmakers from Nigeria and Kenya creating gender-equitable, […]
Nigeria and Ghana will have a notable presence at the 51st Toronto International Film Festival, with four West African films selected across TIFF’s Special Presentations, Centrepiece, Short Cuts and Discovery programmes. Arie and Chuko Esiri’s […]
Ghanaian filmmaker Amartei Armar and actor Idrissu Tontie Jr. have won two awards at the 79th Locarno Film Festival for Ego Reach We All (Our Time Will Come). Armar’s debut feature won the Pardo for […]
Veteran filmmaker Tunde Kelani recently unveiled Opalaba, a Yoruba-language satirical micro-web series that uses AI-assisted visualisation, animation and post-production tools. The filmmaker announced that principal production is expected to begin before the end of August […]
The search is on again. The search for a film to represent the country at the 99th Academy Awards as the Nigerian Official Selection Committee (NOSC) opens the portal to submissions. According to the committee’s […]
All confirmed for release or availability in Nigeria in August 2026, this guide brings together Nollywood releases, international titles, new streaming releases and Nigerian cinema releases. The movies and TV shows are grouped into four […]
Akinola Davies Jr.’s My Father’s Shadow has crossed more than 1.1 million dollars in publicly tracked worldwide theatrical earnings. Figures published by Box Office Mojo and The Numbers show that the Cannes-premiered film had grossed […]
Growing up, one of my earliest examples of social-impact storytelling on screen was Sun City, a Ghanaian campus-based drama series that used everyday university student life to talk about human behaviour, relationships, pressure, and consequences. […]
“On your marks.” Three words C.J. ‘Fiery’ Obasi needed to accompany his announcement of The Boy Who Runs, his latest project based on the life of Ugandan Olympian Julius Achon. While the caption referenced the […]
Black Market, the upcoming crime drama from Rixel Studios, is looking to make history with an attempt to set a Guinness World Record for the largest simultaneous film audience. On September 26, the filmmakers hope […]