LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — The film stars an Oscar nominee, is set in Nigeria during a civil war, is based on an award-winning novel and the head of Nigeria’s censorship board reportedly loved it. Yet a ...

Nigeria has a booming film industry, but critics of Nollywood (ph) say its biggest productions often emphasize a glitzy version of Nigerian life. Now an emerging film festival in the city of Lagos, ...

LAGOS (Reuters) - "Oya!" shouts the director in Nigerian Pidgin English. Actors take their marks. Lighting blinks on. The film crew snaps into action after the order to hurry up. It's another day in ...

Akinola Davies, the director of "My Father's Shadow", Nigeria's first film to win an award at the Cannes film festival, is savouring his return to Lagos, the country's cultural capital, where the ...

After making history on the global stage, Nigerian-British director Akinola Davies Jr. is bringing his debut feature, My Father’s Shadow, to Nigerian cinemas. The film became the first Nigerian ...

Nigeria is going to Cannes. In what is understood to be a first in the film festival’s near-80 year history, a movie from Africa’s most populous nation has been chosen as part of the Cannes Film ...

The country's film festival circuit has become an essential calendar for filmmakers, industry professionals, and cinema lovers across the continent and beyond. The final quarter of 2025 promises a ...

In Nigeria today, one doesn’t have to attend a church service to hear a sermon. The pulpit has moved – onto screens, into living rooms, and across YouTube. Along with this shift, a fascinating genre ...

Filmmaker and popular curator, Femi Odugbemi has opined that Nigerian films are already culture superpowers across the globe. Odugbemi recently made this known at an industry panel session while ...

Nile Entertainment, the Nigerian distribution company launched last year by veteran film executive Moses Babatope, has signed a first-look deal with Action Xtreme, the genre label of the U.K.’s ...