Film makers in the region who converged in Kampala for the 8th Annual Congress on East African Cinema...

When Yasmina Adi got access to archives documenting the 1961 repression of Algerian protesters in Paris, she was shocked to uncover a trove of material relating to gaps in the story of one of the most contested events in recent French history.

“When China met Africa” follows three men in Zambia, who help to illustrate the Afro-Sino relationship...

At the July Durban film festival, the mood was upbeat among the local filmmakers and biz players, who are in the midst of a production boom that's not only led to higher-quality regional pics but has also attracted bigger-budget foreign shoots.

Disputed land rights, food insecurity and pollution caused by large-scale export-based agriculture are main themes of a Cameroonian-made movie currently being shown in the United States.

Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza on Wednesday announced that a much-delayed Truth and Reconciliation Commission to probe decades of ethnic killings would be set up in early 2012.

The Durban International Film Festival, the oldest and largest of its kind in Africa, has began, a far cry from its birth in 1979 by film buffs Ros and Teddy Sarkin.

Mokolo is a partnership between organisations and independent practitioners aimed at strengthening the African film and TV industries

The International Film and Broadcast Academy, in partnership with Goethe-Institut Nigeria is organizing IN-SHORT 2011, the international short film festival with a difference! It takes place from 13 – 15 October 2011 in Lagos and will be screening international short films from different genres with a strong focus on Nigerian and German short films. The festival is targeted at emerging film makers, student film makers and tele-movies of up to 30 minutes length.

The fourth Talent Campus begins next Friday at the 32nd Durban International Film Festival (Diff). Nearly 50 filmmakers representing 16 African countries – Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Mali, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Swaziland, Uganda, and Zimbabwe – will converge on Durban to take part in an intensive programme.

Six months after Tunisia's uprising, religious tension is rising over the limits of freedom of expression, as Islamists challenge the dominance of liberals in what was once a citadel of Arab secularism.

South Africa converted four of its five shortlisted entries into Film Lions on Saturday night, 25 June 2011, at the final Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity awards ceremony for Film, Film Craft, Creative Effectiveness and Titanium and Integrated Lions.

The Jury of the 14th Annual Zanzibar International Film Festival have announced the winners in all competitive categories at the Annual Awards Ceremony at The Old Fort in Stonetown.