Sight and Sound’s 2022 decennial Poll of the 250 Greatest Films of All Time ranks Ousmane Sembéne’s Black Girl 95th and Djibril Diop Mambéty’s Touki Bouki (1973) 65th. Sight and Sound is a monthly film magazine published by the British Film Institute (BFI)
The 2021 Burkinabé hit Les Trois Lascars by director Boubakar Diallo is being made into a Nigerian adaption by director Ishaya Bako. The film follows three married men who decide to take a secret holiday to visit their mistresses, only to see their alibi go up in flames when the plane they were supposed to be on crashes
Films awarded Best Documentary and Best Short Film at the Durban International Film Festival (DIFF)—taking place until July 28th—automatically qualify for the Oscars race, the only Oscar-Qualifying festival in Southern Africa and one of just four on the continent.
122 (2019), an Egyptian psychological horror film directed by Yasir Al Yasiri and written by Salah Al-Goheny, is the first Egyptian movie to be shot in 4DX.
French-Congolese actress Déborah Lukumuena is the first Black woman to win the César Award for Best Supporting Actress, and the youngest to win in the category, for her role in Divines (2016).
Pascal Abikanlou is considered the father of Beninese Cinema. His Sous le Signe du Vaudou (1974) is Benin's first fiction feature film and was restored in 2020 by the Cinémathèque française. The film can be watched for free on HENRI, Cinémathèque's free VOD platform.