Festivals and Films
Lagos What's on
Africa International Film Festival
The screen adaption of Half of a Yellow Sun, Chimamanda Adichie's novel about the Nigerian civil war was expected to open the third edition of the Africa International Film Festival (AFRIFF). But it w...
Lagos What's on
The third edition of this festival for African and diaspora films. This year the theme is Great Migrations. Among the films being screened are Alaskaland by Chinonye Chukwu, Black Africa White Marble...
Accra What's on
Accra hosts the second African Women’s Film Forum. The theme this year is the creation of social justice content for film and television.
On 23 Sept there is the screening of On the Border an...
Lagos What's on
Elisalat promotes Lagos Photo festival
The fourth Lagos Photo festival is once again a joint effort between the African Arts Foundation and the Etisalat Nigeria, telecommunications company. This year’s theme is “The Mega City a...
Cape Town What's on
7th Annual Women’s Arts Festival
The 7th edition of the Women’s/Humanity Arts Festival includes various stage productions, concerts, workshops and exhibitions, which will celebrate the Women’s Day and raise the public&rsq...
Maputo What's on
This German movie Drei (Three), directed by Tom Tykwer, tells of a 20-year long relationship between Hanna and Simon, which now seems tired and bored. They live with their memories of the past rather...
Cairo What's on
6th Panorama of the European Film
The sixth edition of the Panorama of the European Film will focus on European movies as well as on several contemporary German movies and documentaries. It presents critically acclaimed as well as awa...
Accra What's on
Thursday-Films: Full Metal Village
This movie by Sung-Hyung Cho is entitled Full Metal Village and is set in Wacken, a small country village in northern Germany. This tranquil and quiet village is awakened once a year during The Wacken...
Dar Es Salaam What's on
Zanzibar International Film Festival (ZIFF)
The annual Zanzibar International Film Festival (ZIFF), the Festival of Dhow Countries, is the largest East African film and arts festival, which gathers together filmmakers from all around the globe....
Addis Ababa What's on
Goethe Institut projects the humorous comedy Almanya, which tells the story of the 1.000.001st Turkish immigrant worker, Hueseyin, who emigrated to Germany, as well as that of his children and grandch...
Nairobi What's on
This community-based annual film festival returns to Kibera and Mathare, Nairobi’s biggest slums, for its third edition. The programme includes a rich calendar of outdoor screenings of slum sto...
Nairobi What's on
The screening of the movie Berlin Calling by Hannes Stöhr marks the inauguration of Ten Cities, a series of screenings of feature films and documentaries by musicians and writers. It focuses on v...
Accra What's on
Goethe hosts the world premiere of the German movie Fisher of Kids by Steven Keen and Bastian Schneider. It tells the true story of James Kofi Annan, who was sold into Ghana´s fishing industry...
Accra What's on
Italian Movie Night during European Union Week
On occasion of the European Union Week, the Italian embassy in Accra proposes an Italian Movie Night with La Seconda Notte di Nozze by Pupi Avati, set in Italy at the end of world war two. Liliana, a...
Accra What's on
Spanish Cinematographic Soirée for European Union Week
On occasion of the European Union Week, the Spanish embassy promotes this cinematographic soiree, which consists of two film screenings of Spanish movies. Las Trece Rosas by Emilio Martínez-L&a...
Addis Ababa What's on
Films from the Trento Film Festival feature a series of international movies at the Italian Cultural Institute. 18 April the American movie Cold by Anson Fogel, as well as the Italian movie Piccola Te...
Dar Es Salaam What's on
Projection of Kinshasa Symphony
This German movie, entitled Kinshasa Symphony, is directed by Claus Wischmann and Martin Baer. This documentary film tells the story of a group of amateurs musicians and vocalists, who live in Kinshas...
Dar Es Salaam What's on
Throughout April the Thursday Film Screenings at Goethe pay tribute to the German film director, playwright and actor Fatih Akin.
On 11 April at 19.00 on screen will be Im Juli: one day in a hot su...
Accra What's on
This cinema review, entitled Latitude Part 1, is the result of a Pan African Short Film Competition, launched by Goethe-Institut in 2007. The first five contemporary short films by young filmmakers fr...
Nairobi What's on
27 Feb. The association Sentinelles in collaboration with the French and Swiss Embassies in Kenya, screens Blood of Women by Christian Lajoumard.
The focus in the film is on female genital mutilati...
