Sinima a Togo ta fara ne da masu shirya fina -finan mulkin mallaka na Jamus da suka ziyarci Togoland. Faransawa sun yi ƙoƙarin murƙushe sinima a cikin Togoland ta Faransa. Bayan da Jamhuriyar Togo ta sami 'yancin kai a shekarar 1960, gwamnatin kasar Togo ta karfafa sinima, duk da cewa tallafin da gwamnati ke bayarwa ga sinima ya lalace lokacin da aka janye tallafin Faransa a shekarun 1990. Kwanan baya, duk da haka, masana'antar fim ta sake samun ci gaba a Togo. Mai shirya fim Carl Müller ya ɗauki Lomé a cikin 1906, yawo da Jamus tare da fina -finan sa bayan dawowarsa. Mai ba da shawara Adolf Friedrich, gwamnan mulkin mallaka na Togoland daga 1912 zuwa 1914 ya ba da ƙarin ƙarfafawa na tsari don yin fim na Togoland. An yi fim ɗin Wilhelm Solf na 1913 zuwa mulkin mallaka kuma an rarraba shi a Turai. Hans Schomburgk ya fara ziyartar Togo a 1913-14, yana aiki tare da mai ɗaukar hoto na Burtaniya James S. Hodgson da kuma 'yar wasan kwaikwayo Meg Gehrts .