11325+ titles · 54 countries tracked · the diaspora
The full reel
nobody else
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Nollywood melodrama, Senegalese auteur cinema, Kingston reggae films, Kenyan crime thrillers — one map, filtered by scene, language, country and festival award. Built light, on purpose.
Scenes, not just countries
African cinema isn’t one thing. Each industry has its own language, audience and history — so these are the names people actually use, not a dropdown of country codes.
- NollywoodThe world's second-largest film industry by output.
- Nollywood YorubaYoruba-language cinema from Lagos and the south-west.
- GhallywoodGhana's film industry, centred on Accra and Kumasi.
- EgyptianCairo's studio tradition — the oldest continuous film industry in Africa.
- MaghrebNorth African cinema west of the Nile.
- FrancophoneThe auteur tradition of Sembène, Cissé and Sissako.
- South AfricanFrom the Cape to Johannesburg, across all eleven languages.
- AfrikaansAfrikaans-language film, a distinct commercial tradition of its own.
- East AfricanA younger industry, rising fast.
- WakaliwoodUganda's grassroots action cinema, made on almost nothing.
- LusophonePortuguese-language African film.
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See all titles →What’s getting attention on TMDB right now, weighted toward the last decade and restricted to titles with a verified African country of origin — not whatever racked up the most views over 20+ years of daily episodes, and not a Hollywood film about the diaspora with no African production behind it.
Étalon de Yennenga
All FESPACO winners →The grand prize of FESPACO in Ouagadougou, Africa’s oldest and largest film festival, awarded biennially since 1972 — a canon the general movie databases don’t index.
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl · 2024
Katanga: The Dance of the Scorpions · 2024
The Village Next to Paradise · 2024
Sira · 2023
Ashkal: The Tunisian Investigation · 2023
Shimoni · 2025
Freda · 2021
A Tale of Love and Desire · 2021
The Gravedigger's Wife · 2021
Fatwa · 2018
The Mercy of the Jungle · 2019
AMAA Best Film
All AMAA awards →Best Film at the Africa Movie Academy Awards — the continent’s premier annual film prize, running since 2005. This shelf shows winners; the full view includes nominees.
The Gravedigger's Wife · 2021
The Milkmaid · 2020
The Mercy of the Jungle · 2019
Five Fingers for Marseilles · 2018
Félicité · 2017
Eye of the Storm · 2017
Timbuktu · 2014
Of Good Report · 2013
Confusion Na Wa · 2013
How to Steal 2 Million · 2011
Viva Riva! · 2010
The Figurine: Araromire · 2009
Golden Dhow
All ZIFF winners →Top prize of the Zanzibar International Film Festival, the Festival of the Dhow Countries. It awards cinema from across the Indian Ocean world — only its African winners are listed here.
Goodbye Julia · 2023
Binti · 2021
Tug of War · 2024
Supa Modo · 2018
Fatwa · 2018
Call Me Thief · 2016
The Rugged Priest · 2011
AFRIFF Best Feature
All AFRIFF winners →Best Feature Film at the Africa International Film Festival in Lagos, running since 2010.
Azali · 2018
I Am Not a Witch · 2017
'76 · 2016
Fevers · 2014
October 1 · 2014
Of Good Report · 2013
Soul Boy · 2010
Every festival we track
African festival awards aren’t systematically indexed anywhere else. Where a festival awards international cinema, only its African winners are recorded — never a partial list passed off as complete.
- AMAABest FilmLagos, Nigeria · annual since 2005 · winners and nominees
- FESPACOÉtalon de YennengaOuagadougou, Burkina Faso · biennial since 1972
- ZIFFGolden DhowZanzibar, Tanzania · annual since 1997 · African winners only
- AFRIFFBest Feature FilmLagos, Nigeria · annual since 2010 · African winners only
- FIFMÉtoile d'OrMarrakech, Morocco · annual since 2001 · African winners only
- CIFFGolden PyramidCairo, Egypt · annual since 1976 · African winners only
Not another poster wall
General movie databases treat African and diasporic film as a footnote, and assume everyone’s on fibre. Neither is true here.
Country of origin, verified
Every title’s country tag was cross-checked against production data, not guessed from a title match — foreign films that merely filmed on location get filtered out, not counted as local.
Language as a first-class filter
Yoruba, Wolof, Swahili, Amharic, Zulu — search by the language actually spoken on screen, pulled from structured language data, not inferred from country alone.
Built for the connection you actually have
No webfonts, no tracking scripts. Flip on Data Saver in the header and posters are replaced with generated covers — the page still tells you what everything is, just lighter. Your choice sticks.
Spotlight · Senegal
Touki Bouki
Mory, a cowherd, and Anta, a university student, try to make money in order to go to Paris and leave their boring past behind.
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