Women Filmmakers Are Redefining African Cinema: Spotlight on Sanaa El Alaoui’s Aicha
Note: This feature contains mentions of rape and sexual violence. Across Africa, as in much of the world, female subjectivity has long been filtered through a male gaze rather than a woman’s own voice. For decades, women’s roles on screen were imagined, written, and directed mostly by men. Nigeria’s pioneering…
The Art of Conflict
We all love a little drama, just not in our own lives. When things get a bit too quiet, we look for trouble elsewhere. Instead of interrogating our friend about that juicy office fight; who said what, with what tone, and how the other person reacted, we can just sit…
AAIFF Africa 2025 – Day 2
Kigali, Rwanda – 11th October 2025 We’re meeting you halfway through the second day of the second edition of the All African Independent Film Festival!We’re following the events live and bringing them straight to your living rooms, making sure you don’t miss a thing we know you’d hate to miss. Everyone…
AAIFF Africa 2025 – Day 1
Kigali, Rwanda – 10th October 2025 Bonne soirée to everyone tuning in from your small screens! We know you were dying to be here with us at the 2025 All African Independent Film Festival; but hey, life happens. So, for all of you who couldn’t make it, but are itching to…
The Art of Editing: A Conversation with Nathan Delannoy
Photo source: Spoiler Alert Radio. Nathan Delannoy – French Film Editor – La Classe Américaine, The Madness Between Us, Woke, Vestiaires, Tijuana Bible, Kitchen Brigade, Mami Wata.” Spoiler Alert Radio, February 23, 2024. Accessed August 26, 2025. https://spoileralertradio.libsyn.com/nathandelannoy On August 14th, we had the chance to have an interview with…
Conversation With C.J. ‘Fiery’ Obasi: Turning Dreams into Frames
Last Wednesday, July 9, Scott Hillier, President of the ÉCU Film Festival Group, had the opportunity to sit down with acclaimed Nigerian filmmaker C. J. Obasi. Our conversation revolved around his latest film Mami Wata, which won Africa’s Best Independent Film at the 2024 All African Independent Film Festival (AAIFF…
From Pain to Gain
A Fight to Reclaim How Film is Challenging FGM and Empowering Women “Woman”: just two letters more than “Man.” But those two letters mark two vastly different experiences. “Woman” is not even a word of its own—a term constructed from another, reflecting only one perspective. Etymologically, it means a man’s…
The (political) foundations of African cinema
African cinema or African cinemas? This question sparks debate, given Africa’s vast cultural and historical diversity (Tcheuyap 2011). While this article does not seek to resolve this debate, it aims to explore the foundational elements of African cinema, identifying shared themes across the continent. The emergence of cinema in Africa…
What If Stories Could Change the World ? African Futurism in Film
Just two words: WHAT IF? What if that is our reality ? What if this could happen? Those two words: What if, are the embodiment of Science Fiction. As Nnedi Okorafor, states in her Ted Talk, Sci-fi stories that imagine a future Africa, “there is no more efficient form of…
The Odyssey of No. 26 Treasures
Darkness. Darkness consumes all. A deep voice emerges from the shadows of the exhibition rooms at Museé du Quai Branly. “I lost myself in my dreams, becoming one with these walls. Cut off from the land where I was born, as if I were dead.” The haunting memory of the…
