Against the word “emerging”
Nollywood has been emerging for thirty years. At some point the word stops describing an industry and starts describing who is doing…
World Premiere
The frame travels
Lagos is writing for a screen that no longer sits still in one country. What happens to a film when its first audience is somewhere else entirely?
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Latest stories
29 Aug 26
Who actually paid for the fourth quarter
Three financiers, one streamer and a telco underwrote most of what reached screens between October and December. The ledger, as best as…
Ninety seconds in a stairwell
One unbroken take, two actors, no score, and a camera that refuses to move when you want it to. Taken apart shot…
What to Watch
Our picks for what's actually worth your time — in cinemas, on TV, or wherever it's streaming.
What’s on: Lagos, Accra, Nairobi, Johannesburg
Eleven titles worth the trip this fortnight, with the screens that are actually showing them and the ones to avoid.
Ten festival premieres worth planning around
The dates that matter over the next two quarters, from Ouagadougou to Toronto, and what to actually book once tickets open.
Reviews
Our critics' take on it, and what audiences actually thought — so you can judge for yourself.
Blood Meridian, Cape Town (2025)
Thabo Dlamini
The Last Griot (2026)
Aminata Coulibaly
Kinshasa Cowboys (2026)
Jean-Baptiste Lumumba
Lagos Vice (2026)
Kemi Adetola
Behind the Scenes
What happens off screen — the people, the problems, and the work that never makes the credits.
Building a sound department from nothing
No post house, no budget line, and a location next to a generator. How one crew solved it, and what it cost…
Building a subtitle team from scratch
Six languages, one deadline, and the unglamorous work that decides whether a film travels at all.
The ledger
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Film Club 04: the ones that got cut
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Streaming left. What stayed?
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The editor nobody credits
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The distribution map is redrawing itself
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Film Club 05: the opening shots we keep returning to
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Film Club 06: endings that earned their silence
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The doorway that never quite opens
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A four-second pan, and what it costs to hold it
9 Aug 26