Roll Call Africa
Exclusive conversations with the directors, producers, writers, and executives shaping African cinema.
May el-Toukhy entered Venice as the competition’s only female fiction director and left with the Golden Lion. Her victory sharpens her criticism of film’s male-genius culture.
Kaelo Iyizoba’s The Spectacular Death of Prisca reaches TIFF with a Nigerian fantasy language that refuses to simplify…
Damilola Orimogunje’s Dear Ajayi made Nigerian history at Venice Days. His public remarks reveal a filmmaker thinking as…
Angolan filmmaker Pocas Pascoal is developing Sarah, a feature about Sarah Maldoror and the lost revolutionary film Guns…
Jáde Osiberu made Isoken in 2017. It took her almost three years to raise the ₦45 million to…
She learned filmmaking in Kigali two decades ago from a then-unknown director named Lee Isaac Chung, who would…
He is from the DRC. He is a refugee in Bangui. He learned filmmaking in 2018 at Ateliers…
The Herd is about a man imprisoned and a wife who goes to extraordinary lengths to free him.…
She built the most operatic crime franchise in Nollywood. Then she made something with no gloss, no grandiose…
She was fourteen years old when she travelled to Kenya as a Save the Children representative and sat…
She left film for marketing in 2012, launched a separate business as a "cash cow", and used it…
In February 2026, a few days after Anikulapo: The Ghoul Awakens opened on Netflix to divided reactions, Kunle…
