Cinema of Africa

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Women directors

List of cinema by region
North Africa

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 Cinema of Algeria
 Cinema of Egypt
 Cinema of Libya
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 Cinema of Morocco
 Cinema of Tunisia
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West Africa

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 Cinema of Benin
 Cinema of Burkina Faso
 Cinema of Cape Verde
 Cinema of the Gambia
 Cinema of Ghana
 Cinema of Guinea
 Cinema of Guinea-Bissau
 Cinema of Ivory Coast
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 Cinema of Liberia
 Cinema of Mali
 Cinema of Mauritania
 Cinema of Niger
 Cinema of Nigeria
 Cinema of Senegal
 Cinema of Sierra Leone
 Cinema of Togo
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Central Africa

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 Cinema of Angola
 Cinema of Burundi
 Cinema of Cameroon
 Cinema of the Central African Republic
 Cinema of Chad
 Cinema of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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 Cinema of Equatorial Guinea
 Cinema of Gabon
 Cinema of the Republic of the Congo
 Cinema of Rwanda
 Cinema of São Tomé and Príncipe
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East Africa

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 Cinema of the Comoros
 Cinema of Djibouti
 Cinema of Eritrea
 Cinema of Ethiopia
 Cinema of Kenya
 Cinema of Mauritius
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 Cinema of Seychelles
 Cinema of Somalia
 Cinema of South Sudan
 Cinema of Sudan
 Cinema of Tanzania
 Cinema of Uganda
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Southern Africa

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 Cinema of Botswana
 Cinema of Eswatini
 Cinema of Lesotho
 Cinema of Madagascar
 Cinema of Malawi
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 Cinema of Mozambique
 Cinema of Namibia
 Cinema of South Africa
 Cinema of Zambia
 Cinema of Zimbabwe
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Directors by country

 Algeria: Merzak Allouache, Malek Bensmaïl, Nina Khada, Karim Moussaoui
 Angola: Zézé Gamboa,Biography, African Film Festival, New York. Miguel Hurst
 Benin: Idrissou Mora Kpaï, Jean Odoutan
 Botswana: Thabiso Maretlwaneng, Thato Rantao Mwosa
 Burkina Faso: Gaston Kaboré, Valérie Kaboré, Dani Kouyaté, Fanta Régina Nacro, Sanou Kollo, Idrissa Ouedraogo, Pierre Rouamba, Drissa Touré, Apolline Traoré, Saint Pierre Yaméogo
 Burundi: Justine Bitagoye, Eddy Munyaneza, Léonce Ngabo
 Cameroon: Jean-Pierre Bekolo, Bassek Ba Kobhio, Urbain Dia Moukouri, Bernard Auguste Kouemo Yanghu, Joséphine Ndagnou, Jean-Paul Ngassa, Jean-Pierre Dikongué Pipa, Thérèse Sita-Bella, Francis Taptue, Jean-Marie Teno, Francois L. Woukoache
 Cape Verde:  Lolo Arziki, Leão Lopes, Júlio Silvão Tavares
 Chad: Issa Serge Coelo, Mahamat Saleh Haroun
 Comoros: Hachimiya Ahamada
 Côte d'Ivoire:    Marie-Louise Asseu, Sidiki Bakaba, Akissi Delta, Henri Duparc, Desiré Ecaré, Fadika Kramo Lanciné, Roger Gnoan M'Bala, Jacques Trabi 
 Democratic Republic of the Congo: Machérie Ekwa Bahango, Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda, Baloji, Mars Kadiombo Yamba Bilonda, Guy Bomanyama-Zandu, Claude Haffner, Dieudo Hamadi, Mamadi Indoka, Kiripi Katembo, Joseph Kumbela, Laura Kutika, Zeka Laplaine, Albert Mongita, Djo Tunda Wa Munga, Guy Kabeya Muya, Mwezé Ngangura, Ne Kunda Nlaba, Monique Mbeka Phoba, Roger Kwami Zinga
 Egypt: Salah Abu Seif, Adel Adeeb, Youssef Chahine, Yousry Nasrallah, Ezz El-Dine Zulficar, Sherif Arafa, Khaled Youssef, Marwan Hamed, Mohamed Khan, Shady Abdel Salam, Khairy Beshara, Samir Seif, Nader Galal, Ali Abdel-Khalek, Ashraf Fahmy, Radwan El-Kashef, Hady El Bagoury, Ali Ragab, Hala Khaleel, Ehab Lamey, Tarek Al Eryan, Atef El-Tayeb, Daoud Abdel Sayed, Ehab Mamdouh, Sandra Nashaat
 Ethiopia: Yemane Demissie, Haile Gerima, Hermon Hailay, Salem Mekuria"Salem Mekuria", Women Make movies.
 Gabon: Henri Joseph Koumba Bibidi, Pierre-Marie Dong, Imunga Ivanga, Manouchka Kelly Labouba, Charles Mensah
 Ghana: Egbert Adjesu, John Akomfrah, King Ampaw, Kwaw Ansah, Jim Awindor, Yaba Badoe, Akosua Busia, Leila Djansi, Kuukua Eshun, Shirley Frimpong-Manso, Chris Hesse,  Nii Kwate Owoo, Kwesi Owusu, Tom Ribeiro, Halaru B. Wandagou
 Guinea: David Achkar, Cheick Fantamady Camara, Mohamed Camara, Cheik Doukouré,  Gahité Fofana, Mama Keïta
 Guinea-Bissau: Flora Gomes, Sana Na N'Hada
 Kenya: Robby Bresson,Jim Chuchu, Wanuri Kahiu, Wanjiru Kinyanjui, Judy Kibinge, Gilbert Lukalia, Jane Munene, Anne Mungai
 Lesotho: Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese
 Madagascar: Alexander Abela, Marie-Clémence Andriamonta-Paes, Lova Nantenaina, Philippe Raberojo, Raymond Rajaonarivelo, Benoît Ramampy, Solo Randrasana, Luck Razanajaona, Laza Razanajatovo
 Mali: Abdoulaye Ascofare, Souleymane Cissé, Cheick Oumar Sissoko, Manthia Diawara, Adama Drabo
 Mauritania: Med Hondo,  Abderrahmane Sissako, Sidney Sokhona
 Mozambique: Fátima Albuquerque, Licínio Azevedo, Karen Boswall, Sol de Carvalho, Camilo de Sousa, Mickey Fonseca, Rogério Manjate, Isabel Noronha, Lara Sousa
 Namibia: Joel Haikali, Tim Huebschle, Richard Pakleppa
 Niger: Moustapha Alassane, Oumarou Ganda
 Nigeria: Femi Adebayo, Kemi Adetiba, Kunle Afolayan, Dele Ajakaiye, Andy Amenechi, Bayo Awala, Ola Balogun, Biyi Bandele, Jide Bello, Chico Ejiro, Zeb Ejiro, Obi Emelonye, Lola Fani-Kayode, Greg Fiberesima,  Amaka Igwe, Tunde Kelani, Billy Kings, Chris Obi Rapu, Tade Ogidan, Iyabo Ojo, Izu Ojukwu, Zina Saro-Wiwa, Yemi Shodimu, Eddie Ugboma
 Rwanda: Eric Kabera, Kivu Ruhorahoza
 São Tomé and Príncipe: Januário Afonso, Katya Aragão, Ângelo Torres 
 Senegal: Tidiane Aw, Moussa Bathily, Ben Diogaye Bèye, Ahmadou Diallo, Clarence Thomas Delgado, Djibril Diop Mambéty, Thierno Faty Sow, Safi Faye, Joseph Gaï Ramaka, Dyana Gaye, Alain Gomis, Ousmane William Mbaye, Bouna Medoune Seye, Samba Félix Ndiaye, Moustapha Ndoye, Ababacar Samb Makharam,  Ibrahima Sarr, Ousmane Sembène, Moussa Sène Absa, Blaise Senghor, Mansour Sora Wade, Paulin Soumanou Vieyra, As Thiam, Momar Thiam, Moussa Touré, Mahama Johnson Traoré
 Somalia: Abdisalam Aato, Abdulkadir Ahmed Said, Idil Ibrahim
 Sudan: Amjad Abu Alala, Suhaib Gasmelbari, Gadalla Gubara, Hajooj Kuka, Hussein Shariffe, Marwa Zein
 South Africa: Neill Blomkamp, Seipati Bulani-Hopa, Mickey Dube, Nosipho Dumisa, Oliver Hermanus, Katinka Heyns, Gavin Hood, William Kentridge, Jonathan Liebesman, Nana Mahomo, Zola Maseko, Teddy Matthera, Morabane Modise, Sechaba Morejele, Lionel Ngakane 
 Togo: Anne Laure Folly
 Tunisia:  Raja Amari, Mehdi Ben Attia, Mohamed Ben Attia, Kaouther Ben Hania, Férid Boughedir, Leyla Bouzid, Nouri Bouzid, Khaled Ghorbal, Nacer Khémir, Anis Lassoued, Moufida Tlatli
 Uganda: Matt Bish, Caroline Kamya, Hassan Kamoga, Usama Mukwaya, Mariam Ndagire, George Stanley Nsamba, Joseph Kenneth Ssebaggala,  
 Zambia: Rungano Nyoni
 Zimbabwe: M. K. Asante, Jr., Tsitsi Dangarembga, Roger Hawkins,  Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu, Jordan Riber

Films about African cinema
 Caméra d'Afrique, Director: Férid Boughedir, Tunisia/France, 1983
 La Belle at the Movies, Director: Cecilia Zoppelletto, Kinshasa, 2016
 Le Congo, quel cinéma!, Director: Guy Bomanyama-Zandu, Democratic Republic of Congo, 2005
 Les Fespakistes, Directors: François Kotlarski, Eric Münch, Burkina Faso/France, 2001
 Sembene!, Director: Samba Gadjigo and Jason Silverman, 2015
 Spell Reel, Director: Filipa César, Guinea-Bissau, 2017, documentary on the digitization of revolutionary films from Guinea-Bissau.
 This Is Nollywood, Director: Franco Sacchi, 2007

 Film festivals 

Africa
Africa International Film Festival (AFRIFF), Lagos, Nigeria
Africa Movie Academy Awards (AMAA, AMA Awards),  Yenagoa, Nigeria  
Alexandria International Film Festival, Alexandria, Egypt
Amakula International Film Festival, Kampala, Uganda
Ananse Cinema International Film Festival (ANCIFF), Kasoa, Ghana
Aswan International Women's Film Festival, Aswan, Egypt
Bushman Film Festival, held in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire
Cabo Verde International Film Festival
Cairo International Film Festival (CIFF), Cairo, Egypt
Carthage Film Festival
El Gouna Film Festival (GFF), El Gouna, Egypt
Festival International du Film Amateur de Kélibia (FIFAK), Kélibia, Tunisia
Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO), Burkina Faso
Festival of African Cinema (Tarifa-Tangier African Film Festival), Morocco/Spain
Luanda International Pan African Film Festival (Luanda PAFF) 
Luxor African Film Festival, Luxor, Egypt
Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO) is the largest and most prestigious film festival in Africa
Rencontres du Film Court Madagascar (Madagascourt Film Festival)
Rwanda Film Festival (Hillywood), held in Rwanda
Sahara International Film Festival (FiSahara), held in Sahrawi refugee camps in Algeria
Zanzibar International Film Festival (ZIFF)

Asia
 Atesib Film Festival, Israel

Europe
Africa in Motion, held in Edinburgh, Scotland in late October
Festival cinémas d’Afrique Lausanne, in Lausanne, Switzerland in August
Festival des Cinémas d'Afrique du pays d'Apt, in Apt, Vaucluse, France in November

USA
The African Film Festival (TAFF) held in Dallas in late June
African Film Festival, held in New York
Africa World Documentary Film Festival, held in St Louis
Pan African Film Festival, held in Los Angeles
Silicon Valley African Film Festival, held in San Jose, California

Lihimi m-pahi

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 African literature
 Africa Movie Academy Awards, Nigeria
 Atlas Corporation Studios, Morocco
 List of African films
 Négritude
 Negrophilia
 Nu Metro Cinemas, South Africa
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 Political cinema
 Somaliwood, Somali film industry, Ohio, USA
 Ster-Kinekor, South Africa
 Third Cinema, includes filmmakers from Africa
 Women in African cinema
 World cinema
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Bibliography




 Armes, Roy: Dictionary of African Filmmakers, Indiana University Press, 2008, 






 . See also Ecrans d'Afrique.



 Lelievre, Samuel (ed.), "Cinémas africains, une oasis dans le désert?", CinémAction, no. 106, Paris, Télérama/Corlet, 1st trimester 2003


 Solanas, Fernando E., Getino, Octavio, "Towards a Third Cinema" in: Bill Nichols (ed.), Movies and Methods. An Anthology, University of California Press, 1976, pp. 44–64
 Şaul, Mahir and Ralph Austen, Ralph A. (eds), Viewing African Cinema in the Twenty-First Century: Art Films and the Nollywood Video Revolution, Ohio University Press, 2010, 
 Tomaselli, Keyan G., & Mhando, Martin (eds), Journal of African Cinemas, Bristol : Intellect, 2009 -, 
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External links
Movie theatres re-opening in Africa (in French, extensive business discussion)
Congo in Harlem
The Heavy Flag of Pan-African Cinema 
African Cinema in the 1990s
African Media Program comprehensive database of African media
Library of African Cinema in California
Wiki of the African Film Festival of Tarifa
Khalid Halhoul, "Using African Cinema to Shift Cultural Perceptions", UTNE, July 3, 2012. 
Pan-African Film Festival, Cannes
"Top African Film Directors in Alphabetical order", Africapedia

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