Roll Call Africa
Theatrical releases, production intelligence, distribution, and the business of African film.
Ten years after the original iNumber Number, Donovan Marsh brought Chili and Shoes back with a Netflix budget and a gold heist. The film runs from Alexandra Township…
The Return of Arinzo opened Easter 2026 with ₦104.8 million — the biggest Easter weekend in Nigerian cinema…
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…
