Luck Razanajaona’s transporting and touching feature film debut, Disco Afrika, is part coming-of-age story, part political awakening, and a fantastic window …
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African Cinema
Cannes: Erige Sehiri’s Under the Fig Trees is a thoughtful day Tunisian drama
Set over the course of one day, Erige Sehiri’s narrative feature debut Under the Fig Trees (Sous les figues) is a thoughtful ensemble film about the group of …
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Ep. 111: TIFF 2021, part 2
On the second of our TIFF 2021 podcasts, we discuss Power of the Dog, Ali & Ava, coming-of-age films, Midnight Madness, and more from this year's …
‘We are a nation of stories and poems’: Khadar Ayderus Ahmed on The Gravedigger’s Wife
Writer-director Khadar Ayderus Ahmed discusses making his feature debut, The Gravedigger's Wife, a love story set in Djibouti City.Click here to find all of our …
Good Madam review: A haunted house in post-Apartheid South Africa
In Jenna Cato Bass's horror film, Good Madam, a Black family's domestic servitude to a white family is the stuff of nightmares.Click here to find all of our …
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The Gravedigger’s Wife offers a touching slice of Somali life
The Gravedigger's Wife follows a Somali gravedigger's desperate search for funds to finance life-saving surgery for his wife.Read Orla Smith's interview with …
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