Roll Call Africa
Theatrical releases, production intelligence, distribution, and the business of African film.
The Return of Arinzo opened Easter 2026 with ₦104.8 million — the biggest Easter weekend in Nigerian cinema history, the biggest sequel opening in Nollywood history. Five weeks…
The 79th Cannes Film Festival has four African films in its official selection. Three are in Un Certain…
NollywoodWeek Paris 2026 ran May 6 to 10. The 13th edition. Theme: Voyage. Opening film: East-West Love (Kenya-Nigeria).…
Two new Nigeria-Kenya film co-productions have been announced: Cheta Chukwu's The Child Will Carry You and Ella Chikezie's…
Gingerrr — nine AMVCA nominations, zero AMVCA wins — comes to Netflix and Kava this month. The film…
The Hollywood Reporter published a major African cinema at Cannes feature this morning — the first time THR…
President John Dramani Mahama stood before Parliament in February 2026 and announced that Ghana's government had allocated GH₵20…
Ben'Imana is at Cannes. Rwandans cannot watch it in Rwandan cinemas. My Father's Shadow won the AMVCA and…
Today, Cotton Queen — Suzannah Mirghani's debut feature about the mystic matriarch of a Sudanese cotton-farming village —…
Ben'Imana screened yesterday in Un Certain Regard at the 79th Cannes Film Festival. Cannes artistic director Thierry Frémaux…
In 2005, Laïla Marrakchi arrived at Cannes with Marock — a film about a young Muslim woman from…
Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway — one of the most formally demanding novels in the English language — transposed…
