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British-Chinese Director, Chee Keong Cheung ’s action thriller, Son of the Soil , has attained the top spot on the Netflix Nigeria Top 10 Chart less than 24 hours after release. This follows the film’s arrival on the streaming giant, after impressive showings at the 2025 African International Film Festival  (AFRIFF) and Black Star International Film Festival  (BSIFF) and the 2026 Pan-Afriican Film Festival .  The film follows Zion Ladejo ( Razaq Adoti ), an ex Nigerian soldie

Exclusive interview: Akinola Davies Jr., Rachel Dargavel & Funmbi Ogunbanwo discuss making My Father's Shadow, Nigeria's first Cannes competition film. From L-R: Akinola Davies Jr., Rachel Dargavel, Funmi Ogunbanwo, Wale Davies, and Sope Disiru.  Image: Fatherland Productions Some films announce themselves quietly, arriving without fanfare before lodging themselves somewhere deep and permanent. My Father's Shadow , the debut feature from Nigerian-British filmmaker Akinola Dav

Nile-Distributed Mother’s Love Advances Global Festival Campaign Star of the evening, Omotola Jalade Ekeinde, in Ade Bakare London. Image: Sammy Oguejiofor  Los Angeles, California- February 16, 2026 Following a successful international festival trajectory from the Silicon Valley Africa Film Festival (SVAFF) to the 50th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF)   Mother's Love , the directorial debut of Nollywood legend, TIME 100 honoree, and global screen force Omotola Jala

Pamela Adie's ìfẹ́: The Sequel premieres at BFI Flare 2026. Nigerian LGBTQ filmmaker's narrative debut explores queer love and identity in Lagos.  Nigerian LGBTQIA+ Filmmaker Pamela Adie ’s narrative debut feature   ìfẹ́: The Sequel  is set to make its  its world premiere on March 23, 2026 at the 40th edition of the BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival . The film, which is the highly anticipated follow-up to the 2020 short  ìfẹ́  will be showing at BFI Southbank, London,

Birdie at Sundance 2026: Nigerian-American director Praise Paige Odigie crafts a moving portrait of a Biafran refugee family navigating loss and identity Once upon a time, a mother and her two daughters lived in the American countryside. They were from another country, building a new life in the aftermath of a war between their people and those whom they once called compatriots. The older daughter believed her father was dead. Mother and younger teenage daughter believed he w

Pan African Film & Arts Festival showcases dynamic range of storytelling from established auteurs and emerging voices (February 16-22) Los Angeles  - The 35th Pan African Film & Arts Festival  returns to Los Angeles February 16–22, 2026, bringing together a compelling slate of Black cinema that spans continents, and generations. As one of the premier platforms  for African diaspora storytelling, PAFF 2026 offers audiences a front-row seat to the evolution of Black filmmaking,

Review: Olive Nwosu's Sundance 2026 debut Lady explores sisterhood and sex work in Lagos with spirited ambition but uneven execution. Jerry Chiemeke reports Image Credit: Sundance Nigerian-born filmmaker Olive Nwosu 's feature debut Lady  (2026) announces itself with ambition as it wafts on an intriguing backdrop: an inverted view of the Lagos lagoon, two childhood friends perched on a dilapidated shack, and the shadow of trauma that will reverberate through the film's 92-min

Top Nigerian film journalists share their favourite 2025 coverage moments, from To Kill A Monkey controversy to indie discoveries and festival highlights.

Dika Ofoma's Obi is A Boy is Nigeria's only film showing at the prestigious International Film Festival Rotterdam

Sundance 2026's Short Film Section features three African films: Praise Odigie Paige's Birdie, Will Niava's Jazz Infernal, and Rami Jarboui's The Bird's Placebo. 

Idris Elba announces he's stepping back from acting to focus on directing full-time, revealing his career shift at the Red Sea Film Festival.

Bridgetown, Barbados  – The Diaspora is mostly familiar with Hollywood’s blockbusters kings presented by Marvel and other American studios. We've watched The King's Speech , where a stammering monarch finds his voice to lead a nation through war. We've felt the weight of T'Challa returning to Wakanda to claim his throne in Black Panther . We've laughed as Prince Akeem crossed an ocean to find love in Coming to America  I & II. But on November 11, 2025, something far more prof

From L to R, Tola Odunsi, Sola Sobowale, Stan Nze in post-screening conversation hosted by Stephanie Busari | Image- Jot Photography(for GUBA) Bridgetown, Barbados  The first day of the GUBA Trade & Investment Forum 2025 concluded with something unexpected: a standing ovation for a Nigerian film that would, within hours, become part of Barbados' national curriculum. On the evening of November 10, after a full day of panels on reparations, financial integration, and diaspora i

GUBA 2025 | Photography by Ernest Simmons For GUBA Bridgetown, Barbados  – Listen, the GUBA Trade & Investment Forum isn't your average conference. This is what happens when you mix high-stakes business with culture, purpose, and a guest list that looks like the Oscars decided to collaborate with the African Union. From NFL stars to Nollywood royalty, civil rights icons to Afrobeats architects, Barbados became the epicenter of Black excellence last week. And honey, everyone  

92 Films. 32 Countries. 1 Weekend.   October 9–12, 2025 | San Jose. Sherif Awad at the SVAFF Knowledge Sharing Session | Photo Credit: SVAFF At the just-concluded Silicon Valley African Film Festival (SVAFF) , the conversations go far beyond screenings and applause. We dug deep into history, culture, creativity and the shifting heartbeat of African storytelling. This year’s knowledge sharing session  with Sherif Awad , an Egyptian film critic, curator, and cultural ambassador

By Sahndra Fon Dufe Director of Media, Silicon Valley African Film Festival (SVAFF) Festival Dates: October 10–13, 2025 Silicon Valley, California, USA At this year’s Silicon Valley Film Festival, Cameroonian creatives took center stage by featuring two standout films from the Cameroonian talent pool, “Till Death”  by Yana Billé-Chung  and “Lights Out”  by Enah John Scott each . Each of these films reflected the nation’s cinematic evolution and growing international acclaim.

First-Ever Caribbean Edition Brings Africa-Caribbean Collaboration to New Heights with Exclusive World Premiere For the first time in its 16-year history, the prestigious GUBA Awards  is expanding into the Caribbean, bringing three of Nollywood's most dynamic talents to Barbados for an exclusive world premiere screening of their highly anticipated feature film, 19 . Sola Sobowale   ( King of Boys, Netflix ), Stan Nze  ( Rattlesnake, Netflix ) and Tola Odunsi  (Director, The M

92 Films. 32 Countrie s. 1 Weekend.   October 9–12, 2025 | San Jose. Dr. Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde  on the Red Carpet SVAFF October 9–12, 2025 | San Jose  When Dr. Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde walked into the 16th edition of the Silicon Valley African Film Festival (SVAFF) this year, few anticipated the weekend would end with her name echoing across the auditorium not just as an icon, but as a filmmaker bridging cinema and innovation.Her directorial debut, A Mother’s Love , screened t

(In collaboration with SVAFF x Adobe) 92 Films. 32 Countries. 1 Weekend.   October 9–12, 2025 | San Jose. Rejoice Abutsa, Founder(SVAFF) Chike Nwoffiah, Tejiri Adjekpiyede, Sahndra Fon Dufe at Adobe, SVAFF 2025 October 9–12, 2025 | San Jose  CREDIT: RICE MEDIA On Thursday, October 9, 2025, the Silicon Valley African Film Festival  (SVAFF) traded its screening rooms for the glass-lined corridors of innovation at Adobe World Headquarters, a perfect  convergence of creativity an

92 Films. 32 Countries. 1 Weekend.   October 9–12, 2025 | San Jose. Founder(SVAFF) Chike Nwoffiah honors Souleymane Cisse, October 9–12, 2025 | San Jose  Asha Weal, Rice Media “Original landlords of the planet.” Chike Nwoffiah doesn’t just say it, he means it. The founder and festival director of the Silicon Valley African Film Festival (SVAFF) has spent the last 16 years pulling off what sounds, on paper, like a fever dream: an African film festival thriving in the tech capi