Earlier this month, we published a story on Nigerian talents to watch across early 2026 international film festivals. Since the end of December, major festivals including Sundance, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, and the Clermont-Ferrand […]
Seasons come and go in the yearly film cycle, but one season that never really goes away, at least for film publications, is the festival season. Selections for early 2026 international film festivals have already […]
Akinola Davies Jr.‘s My Father’s Shadow is perhaps the most prominent film tied to Nigeria in 2025. As the first Nigerian title as an official selection at the Cannes Film Festival, where it received the […]
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 […]
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 […]
African filmmakers have gone through before. Mati Diop (Atlantics) and Rungano Nyoni (I Am Not a Witch) both brought early projects to Locarno’s Open Doors, years before the platform committed to more countries on the […]
The top comment in one of the Zikoko Life shorts reads, “Please, shoot more videos. This struck my heart. I’m in my 40s, and yet, I know love will find me.” The film being referred […]
“The look of love” is a phrase common amongst romcom aficionados. Many outside the group are acquainting themselves with the phrase thanks to TikTok. Although TikTok has popularized it with its swoony edits of couples, […]
Popular Zikoko serials Naira Life, Love Life, and Sex Life are taking an on-screen adapted form in an anthology film series, Zikoko Life, created by Anita E. Eboigbe and produced by Blessing Uzzi. Big Cabal […]
Dika Ofoma and producer Blessing Uzzi of Bluhouse Studios have been selected for the 2025 Open Doors Projects programme at the Locarno Film Festival, with their upcoming feature Kachifo (Till the Morning Comes) that has […]
