Roll Call Africa
Theatrical releases, production intelligence, distribution, and the business of African film.
President John Dramani Mahama stood before Parliament in February 2026 and announced that Ghana's government had allocated GH₵20 million to a national film development fund. At May 2026…
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…
The 79th Cannes Film Festival is in its second day. The Directors' Fortnight opened yesterday. Clarissa — Lagos,…
Gingerrr received nine AMVCA nominations and zero wins. The critical community has been divided about it all year.…
Alexx Ekubo died on May 12, 2026. He was 40. He had been fighting stage 4 liver cancer…
Cairo 678 changed how Egypt talked about sexual violence. Clash confined a film's entire moral universe to the…
At some point on Saturday night, between winning Best Supporting Actress for The Herd and returning to the…
The screenwriter behind My Father's Shadow is the origin point of everything the industry celebrated on Saturday night.…
