The film Rafiki is a charming love story that plays out in urban Kenya. It follows two teenage girls whose close friendship slowly turns into first love. Directed by rising filmmaker Wanuri Kahiu, it ...

African cinema has arrived in Cannes determined to blaze its own trail amid signs of a slowdown in investment across the continent from the world's leading streamers. Leading the way is Akinola Davies ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Joburg Film Festival returns to the heart of South Africa’s entertainment industry from March 11 – 16, with a seventh edition ...

WIF Los Angeles (WIF LA) and WIFT Africa (Women in Film and TV Africa) have united to bring a delegation of women creatives ...

It’s Black History Month. Gayle Anderson reports The Pan African Film & Arts Festival begins Tuesday, February 4th at the Culver Theater. The 2025 Theme is Dream Beyond. The “Dream Beyond” theme ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gayle Anderson reports on the 2026 Pan African Film & Arts Festival (PAFF), founded in 1992, it began as a cultural response to ...

For the past two decades, African Film Festival has partnered with the Department of African & African American Studies, Film & Media Studies, and the African Students Association at Washington ...

Stay on top of what’s happening in the Bay Area with essential Bay Area news stories, sent to your inbox every weekday. The Bay Bay Area-raised host Ericka Cruz Guevarra brings you context and ...

Presley Chweneyagae, the South African actor who earned international acclaim for his role in the Oscar-winning film Tsotsi, the first South African movie to win an Oscar, has died. He was 40.

With the barrage of news coming from all corners of the world, plus the unrest here at home, it’s easy to feel disconnected from ongoing global conflicts. It’s difficult to hold all of the tragedy at ...

JOHANNESBURG — Presley Chweneyagae, the South African actor who gained international recognition for his leading role in the 2005 film "Tsotsi", which won South Africa's first ever Academy Award for ...

With Netflix and Amazon cooling on content investments in the region, African filmmakers are forging new models of independence and collaboration: “We’ve had to figure out how to do it on our own.” By ...