10552+ titles · 54 countries tracked · the diaspora
Nollywood melodrama, Senegalese auteur cinema, Kingston reggae films, Kenyan crime thrillers — one map, filtered by language, country, and the themes that actually run through them. Built light, on purpose.
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.
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.
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.
Best Feature Film at the Africa International Film Festival in Lagos, running since 2010.
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.
General movie databases treat African and diasporic film as a footnote, and assume everyone’s on fibre. Neither is true here.
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.
Yoruba, Wolof, Swahili, Amharic, Zulu — search by the language actually spoken on screen, pulled from structured language data, not inferred from country alone.
No webfonts, no tracking scripts. Data Saver mode skips real poster images entirely — the page still tells you what everything is, just lighter.
Spotlight · Senegal
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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