Reviews
‘Behind the Scenes’ Review: Funke Akindele’s December Blockbuster is Surely Relatable, Likely to Be Profitable, But Creatively Stuck
The Funke Akindele moral lesson cinematic universe has been expanded with the addition of her latest, Behind the Scenes. Co-directed by Tunde Olaoye, it is a film that follows the wealthy, benevolent Ronke Fernandez, who […]
S16 Film Festival 2025 Reviews: ‘My Jebba Story,’ ‘Obi is a Boy,’ ‘About Sarah’ and More
Traces Of The Sun S16 Film Festival: Directors working in the ten-to-thirty-minute range for short films can fracture time, dissolve narrative causality, or abandon dialogue entirely, treating form itself as the primary subject rather than […]
S16 Film Festival 2025 Reviews: ‘Ode!,’ ‘70×7,’ and ‘The Passage’
The Passage S16 Film Festival: In The Passage, South African filmmaker Ntokozo Mlaba shoots scenes with a jazzy lightness that veers into an almost supernatural aura. The scenes are slightly elevated from real life with […]
S16 Film Festival 2025 Reviews: ‘Back to the Theatre Vox,’ ‘Second Wind,’ and More
Spoilers Ahead! Morning, Morning S16 Film Festival: Morning, Morning by Gozirimuu Obinna is a quiet, black-and-white ache. It is a film where no one speaks, yet everything is said through eyes that flinch, bodies that hesitate, […]
‘The Herd’ Review: Daniel Etim Effiong’s Topical Despite Uneven Debut for a Desperate Populace in Desperate Times
Daniel Etim Effiong’s debut feature sits at the centre of an important political quagmire: a country refusing to tackle a complex insecurity issue that threatens to destroy an already delicate national fabric. It takes on […]
AFRIFF 2025: ‘To Adaego With Love’ Review
AFRIFF: There are many stories told of victories and the ways they are achieved. The tales of the final battles and surrender, chronicles of the victors and vanquished, narratives strung together of the pacts forged […]
AFRIFF 2025: ‘The Boy Who Gave’ Review
AFRIFF: A first feature often defines the trajectory of a director’s career. It shapes how audiences will come to perceive their work and what threads they’ll follow through subsequent projects. For The Boy Who Gave, […]
AFRIFF 2025: ‘The Good Gift’ Review
AFRIFF: Today’s sermon, or rather review, will be taken from the book of Matthew, chapter 7, verse 11, which says, “If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how […]
News
PinPoint Productions Confirms ‘Aloma’ as Chris Ihidero’s First Feature Film
PinPoint Productions has announced Aloma, the debut feature film from Nigerian filmmaker Chris Ihidero. The thriller is in post-production and scheduled for an international premiere in 2026. A teaser has been released to give audiences […]
Martha Ehinome Completes Production on Her Debut Film ‘Man of Her Dreams’
Martha Ehinome, known for her role as Tumi in the Showmax series Wura, has completed production on her first film as an executive producer. The feature, Man of Her Dreams, has now entered post-production, with […]
Cheta Chukwu’s ‘To Catch a Falling Sky’ Wins Two Awards at Red Sea Souk Project Market
Cheta Chukwu’s To Catch a Falling Sky emerged as one of the major winners at this year’s Red Sea Souk Project Market, which took place from December 6–10 alongside the Red Sea International Film Festival. […]
FaithStream and EnfiTV Enter Africa’s Streaming Market With Local Audiences and Creators in Focus
Two new African streaming platforms, FaithStream and EnfiTV, are entering the market with plans to serve audiences and creators that global platforms have not fully supported on the continent. One caters to an underserved population, […]
One Year After Winning Rising Star Award, Dika Ofoma Wins First AFP Critics Prize at S16 Film Festival 2025
Nigerian filmmaker Dika Ofoma has won the inaugural AFP Critics Prize at the 5th edition of the S16 Film Festival in Lagos for his short film Obi Is a Boy. The new prize, created by […]
S16 Film Festival 2025 Highlights, Awards Winners and Our Standout Creatives
S16 Film Festival has calmly wrapped our 2025 festival season, most memorably, as always. The fifth edition of the festival, themed ‘Let There Be Light’, took place across three venues from December 1-5, at the […]
S16 Launches Distribution Arm, Announces Film Lab and Monthly Film Screenings
The S16 Film Festival closed its fifth edition with some major announcements, unveiling plans to launch a film lab, monthly screenings, and a dedicated distribution arm beginning in 2026. What began as a filmmaker-centred festival […]
Funmbi Ogunbanwo and Wale Davies Call for Stronger Systems and Structure to Protect The Nollywood Story
Hardly a public statement of direction has come from Netflix, one of the foreign platforms that has invested heavily in Nollywood in recent years. But that momentum noticeably slowed at the beginning of the year, […]
Essays
FaithStream and EnfiTV Enter Africa’s Streaming Market With Local Audiences and Creators in Focus
Two new African streaming platforms, FaithStream and EnfiTV, are entering the market with plans to serve audiences and creators that global platforms have not fully supported on the continent. One caters to an underserved population, […]
‘Ewo’ (Forbidden) Review: Ademola Adedoyin and Bimbo Ademoye Caught in the Crossfire Between Tradition and Religion
Ewo (Forbidden) opens like an ethnographic homage to the African marketplace. Directed by Ekene Som Mekwunye (One Lagos Night), it presents a colourful swirl of commerce, culture, and chatter. With wide shots of women displaying […]
‘The Lost Days’ Review: The Very Brief Tender Beauty Of Wingonia Ikpi’s Directorial Debut
I began watching The Lost Days last Saturday inside an Uber while stuck in an infuriating traffic with a sexist driver who kept yelling curses at the female driver in front of him. The day […]
‘Freedom Way’ is the Most Important Nollywood Film of Our Present Lives
Inspired by David Ehrlich proclaiming The Naked Gun as the most important movie of the summer for Americans—arguing for the return of pure comedy—I’m proclaiming Freedom Way as the Nollywood film of this period of […]
JJC Skillz Makes Solo Theatrical Return with Action Thriller ‘Hakeem Seeking Justice’, Five Years After ‘Omo Ghetto’
JJC Skillz, real name Abdulrasheed Bello, will return with Hakeem Seeking Justice, his first theatrical release since his work on Omo Ghetto: The Saga in 2020. The new movie, also known simply as Seeking Justice, […]
‘What No One Knows’ Review: The Cost of Forgetting Women in a Nigerian Female Friendship Tale
A bond that has existed across time and media, strengthened by adversity and a world that is often against their existence, is female friendship. This forms the core of What No One Knows. The dynamic […]
