Starlomo finds the right setting and a compelling cultural premise, but its underdeveloped screenplay prevents these ...

The women in Black Market are too generic to carry the full weight of the premise. They function as a collective rather than ...

And truly, the poetry in Unbind Me Now is angry, filled with outrage and umbrage, or at least performs it (no matter what, ...

Film Africa’s programme cuts across contemporary features, shorts and documentaries, as well as retrospectives and discourses ...

Since beginning her photographic practice in 2017, Esther Adeola Seriki has continued to move between conceptual portraiture, ...

Mama rarely spoke; she did not like to. Yet on the days she forgot where she was, days when she remembered Chinua as Akubekee ...

Taken together, the selections for the 2027 Oscars offer more than a list of films competing for one of the Academy’s five ...

The Autograph of Nothingness understands loneliness as a concept; it is less successful at making loneliness an experience ...

It must be a spiritual problem. A boy with such a bright future decides to take up a gun to hurt his fellow students” By ...

Contained in this LCA! Film Festival 2026 Dispatch are brief reviews and commentaries on the five films on the programme not ...

We didn’t have that kind of infrastructure readily available. We basically had people who believed that we could do it.”— Nora Awolowo ...

One Gidi Night finds its rhythm when Lagos, the clock and its characters’ desperation converge, but loses its grip when its screenplay leaves some decisions..