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African Cinema prominently featured at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival with more than 20 films debuting at the festival. Notable features include Somali filmmaker, Mo Harawe’s The Village Next to Paradise and Zambian filmmaker, Rungano Nyoni’s On Becoming a Guniea Fowl in the Un Regard category. The Director’s fortnight featured Egyptian film director, Hala Elkoussy’s East of Noon while Moroccan filmmaker, Nabil Ayouch’s Everybody Loves Touda screened in the Cannes Premiere section.

Film Africa, the Royal African Society’s biennial London festival celebrating the African and African diaspora cinema from across the continent, is now accepting submissions through June 30 for its 10th edition taking place October 25 through November 3, 2024.

How to Ruin Love: The Proposal, a spin off of the How to Ruin series drops on Netflix on May 31. The story follows Zoleka (Sivenathi Mbuya) who believes her long-term boyfriend, Kagiso (Bohang Moeko) is cheating on her. Produced by the Ramaphakela siblings Tshepo, Katleho, and Rethabile of Burnt Onion Productions.

Tribeca Film Festival runs from June 5 to 16, 2024, in New York City. African productions set to screen at the festival include Made in Ethiopia by Xinyan Yu and Max Duncan and produced by Tamara Dawit about three women navigating the expansion of the biggest Chinese industrial zone in Ethiopia; Era Oculta by Carlos Vargas a drama unfolding in Maputuo Mozambique; Searching for Amani, a documentary by Debra Okoro and Nicole Gormley about a young aspiring journalist investigating his father’s murder within one of Kenya’s largest wildlife conservancies; and The Weekend, a drama-thriller by Daniel Emeke Oriahi, and the first independent Nigerian selected to screen at the festival.