Biopics are tricky things – done badly, they are either the cinematic equivalent of self-help books, done well they become a story all of their own, which never...
Ask a stupid question….the answer obviously is no.
From his first major break-out as a leading man in Dirty, Pretty Things, in which he plays an illegal immigr...
‘Plot for Peace’, produced by the African Oral History Archive, tells the fascinating and previously untold story of Jean-Yves Ollivier or ‘Monsieur Jacques’, ...
Social Activist and filmmaker Toyin Agbetu’s latest project Beauty Is, is an interesting look at the concept of beauty from a Pan-African Perspective. The docum...
In Senegalese director Ousmane Sembène's Ceddo (1977), a village king embraces Islam and, with the support of a cruel imam, tries to force all his subjects to c...
1. It bills itself as London’s largest one day African film festival. For the past few years it has been an annual event as part of the Peckham and Nunhead F...
Film Africa 2014: Annual film festival returns with historical vengeance
Film Africa, the UK’s largest celebration of African cinema is in its 4th year, and ta...
“The Price of Things”
Last night, after leaving the festival site, called the June 12th Cultural Centre, I took a motorbike taxi home; in the first instance, th...
Kapwani Kiwanga discusses her practice with independent curator and writer Yasmina Reggad. Kiwanga's work is showing as part of Mythopoeia at Tiwani Contemp...
Future Sounds of Mzansi
dir. Nthato Mokgata & Lebogang Rasethaba, South Africa 2014, 1h38m
Co-directed by performance artist and producer Spoek Matham...
