Reviews
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 […]
AFRIFF 2025: ‘Lace Relations’ Review (Documentary)
AFRIFF: There are familiar patterns in history, events that repeat themselves with little to no variations, circumstances that mothers and daughters will experience and moments that nations will often not learn from. With Lace Relations, […]
News
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, […]
Circuits Expands Beyond Streaming, Co-Produces ‘King of Thieves 2’ and ‘Agbara Nla: The Return’
Two anticipated Nollywood projects, King of Thieves 2 and a remake of the classic, Agbara Nla, have recently been announced with the streaming platform, Circuits named as a co-producer on both projects. Being on board […]
S16 Film Festival 2025: Official Shorts & Feature Film Selection Lineup
Following 2024’s Technologic theme, the S16 Film Festival is now calling upon all of the lights for its 2025 edition. Themed ‘Let There Be Light’, the festival is now in its fifth edition and brings not […]
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, […]
Becoming Boro: Philip Asaya Breaks Down His Titular Role In ‘Kill Boro’, Discusses Domestic Violence, Patricide, And Men’s Mental Health
Philip Asaya, known for his roles in Enakhe (2020-2021), Slum King (2023), and Cake (2022), has delivered one of his most memorable performances to date as a debt-ridden father in Courage Obayuwana’s directorial debut, Kill […]
‘Onye Egwu’ Review: Too Many Offside Attempts Drag Nollywood’s Season Further Down
Sports-themed films are characterised by inspirational and compelling plots. In these films, the subjects of the plot depict the spirit of competition, teamwork, and will to overcome the obstacles on their journey of struggles, triumphs, […]
The Filmjoint Premieres’ Second Edition Explores Social Issues Through Short Films
The Filmjoint Premieres, an annual event designed to give filmmakers the opportunity to showcase their unreleased short films to a live audience hosted its second edition at the EbonyLife Cinemas. The selected short films were […]
Inkblot Co-Founder Zulumoke Oyibo Sets Release Date for Directorial Debut, ‘The Betrayed’ (Watch Trailer)
Prominent Nigerian movie executive and co-founder of Inkblot Productions, Zulumoke Oyibo, has embarked on a new phase of her career by making her debut as a director. The trailer (see below) for Oyibo’s directorial debut […]
Every Christopher Nolan Film Available to Stream in Nigeria
Christopher Nolan is a director known for exploring themes of existence, morality and knowledge in his suspenseful stories. He has garnered over ten works to his name since his breakthrough with Memento in 2000. From […]
