The 2026 selection

Films

A curated programme of new African and diaspora cinema. Click a film for details, screening information and source links.

Nigeria/UK, 2025 · Opening film

My Father's Shadow

Nigeria/UK, 2025. Family drama in Lagos during the crisis year of 1993.

Tunisia/France/Qatar, 2025 · Feature

Promised Sky

Tunisia/France/Qatar, 2025. Drama about migration, African women in Tunisia, motherhood and solidarity.

Egypt/Sudan/Tunisia and others, 2025 · Feature

Aisha Can't Fly Away

Egypt/Sudan/Tunisia and others, 2025. Sudanese migrants in Cairo, social precarity and survival.

Sudan/UK/Germany/Qatar, 2025 · Documentary

Khartoum

Sudan/UK/Germany/Qatar, 2025. Documentary about five people from Khartoum, war, flight, dreams and resistance.

Ghana/USA/UK, 2025 · Documentary

The Eyes of Ghana

Ghana/USA/UK, 2025. Documentary on Kwame Nkrumah's cinematographer Chris Hesse and African film archives.

South Africa/Saudi Arabia, 2025 · Feature

The Heart Is a Muscle

South Africa/Saudi Arabia, 2025. Drama about fatherhood, violence, guilt and reconciliation.

Ghana, 2024 · Feature

The Fisherman

Ghana, 2024. Audience-friendly magical realism and humour with strong cultural roots.

Kenya/Switzerland/Saudi Arabia, 2025 · Feature

Memory of Princess Mumbi

Kenya/Switzerland/Saudi Arabia, 2025. Kenyan sci-fi/mockumentary about memory, war and the future.

Gabon, 2025 · Feature

Afrotopia

Gabon, 2025. Film about ecology, colonial legacies, sacred forests and modernity in Gabon.

DR Congo/Belgium/France/USA, 2025 · Feature

Rumba Royale

DR Congo/Belgium/France/USA, 2025. Historical thriller in Leopoldville 1959, with rumba and independence-era tension.

Senegal, 2025 · Feature

So Long a Letter

Senegal, 2025. Adaptation of Mariama Ba's feminist classic about tradition, women and modernity.

Nigeria/Belgium, 2025 · Feature

When Nigeria Happens

Nigeria/Belgium, 2025. Contemporary Nigerian dance drama about young artists, pressure and survival.

Nigeria/Austria, 2025 · Documentary

Lace Relations

Nigeria/Austria, 2025. Documentary on textile trade, colonial economies, consumption and culture.

Libya/USA, 2025 · Documentary

My Father and Qaddafi

Libya/USA, 2025. Personal documentary about a Libyan opposition leader, exile, family and memory.

Somalia/Djibouti/USA, 2024 · Feature

Barni

Somalia/Djibouti/USA, 2024. Somali drama about a missing girl and community; strong diaspora relevance.

Zambia/UK/Ireland, 2024 · Feature

On Becoming a Guinea Fowl

Zambia/UK/Ireland, 2024. Drama about family silence, sexual violence and generational conflict in Zambia.

Belgium/France/Netherlands, 2024 · Documentary

Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

Belgium/France/Netherlands, 2024. Documentary on Congo, Lumumba, colonialism, the Cold War and jazz.

France / South Africa theme, 2024 · Documentary

Ernest Cole: Lost and Found

France / South Africa theme, 2024. Raoul Peck's documentary on photographer Ernest Cole, apartheid, exile and rediscovered images.

Egypt/France/Qatar/Saudi Arabia, 2024 · Documentary

The Brink of Dreams

Egypt/France/Qatar/Saudi Arabia, 2024. Documentary about young Egyptian girls forming a theatre troupe and challenging gender roles.

Sudan/Tunisia/France/Qatar, 2024 · Documentary

Sudan, Remember Us

Sudan/Tunisia/France/Qatar, 2024. Documentary on the Sudanese revolution, art, poetry, music and youth resistance.