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| Project ↕ | Format ↕ | Director ↕ | Producer(s) | Countries ↕ | Language | Synopsis | Pipeline Status ↕ | Funders | Sales Agent ↕ | Industry Support |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Of Heart and Lung Feature — Fiction | Walid Mattar | Tunisia | Arabic | Development | ||||||
I Am Afraid to Meet You Someday Feature — Fiction | Khaled Mansour | Egypt | Arabic | Development | ||||||
Regent Boy Feature — Fiction | Ari Rajin Gunnarsson | Eurasia Motion Pictures, Just Focus Films | Canada | English, Urdu, Somali | Pre-Production | |||||
'n Doop om Stilte Feature — Fiction | Kanya Viljoen & Emilie Badenhorst | Casey Diepeveen | South Africa | Afrikaans | A 13-year-old boy endures a brutal boarding school initiation in this psychological drama about hazing and survival. | Development | DFM Pitch and Finance Forum 2025, July 18–21, 2025 | |||
333 Series | Aden Abebe | Aden Abebe | Ethiopia Canada | English | A comedy series. Project developed through Realness Institute's AuthenticA Series Lab Cohort 3 (2024-2025). | Development | Canada Media Fund | Realness Institute AuthenticA Series Lab Cohort 3 announcement, Screen Daily, September 2024. Series Mania Forum pitch, March 2025. ↗ | ||
A Chacun Sa Coupe Feature | Boris Oué | Glaam Media Invest | Ivory Coast France | A saga crossing football, fantasy, and Ivorian tradition. Touré, a 21-year-old footballer, is drawn into a world where ancestral forces and modern ambition collide. | Development | Cinando (March 2026) ↗ | ||||
A infância perdida em Cabo Delgado Documentary Short | Celsaldino Alberto | Mozambique | Not yet available. Project announced March 18, 2026; production begins May 1, 2026. | Pre-Production | CPLP Audiovisual Programme (PAV III) | Tela Viva / CPLP announcement, March 18, 2026 ↗ | ||||
A Lost Shepherd Feature Narrative | Aymane Benammi | Maya Bouchentouf | Morocco | Development | Fondation Tamayouz Cinema TAP03 selection, March 2026 | |||||
A Pair of Shoes in the Dark Corner of the Moon Feature — Fiction | Ayman El Amir | Egypt | Arabic | Not yet publicly available. | Development | CineGouna / El Gouna Film Festival | CineGouna Platform 2024 | |||
About Love & September Laws Feature — Fiction | Mohamed Kordofani | Mohamed Kordofani, Khalid Awad | Sudan | Arabic | Sudan, 1983. As Sharia Law takes hold, a doctor, a translator, and a US reporter become entangled in love and resistance amid political upheaval. | Development | Red Sea Souk | Red Sea Souk 2025 Development Award, December 2025; NNAF slate March 2026 ↗ | ||
Adrar Feature Documentary | Hamza Azeroual | Hiba El Abkari | Morocco | Development | Fondation Tamayouz Cinema TAP03 selection, March 2026 | |||||
African Titanics Feature — Fiction | Hajooj Kuka | Sudan | Arabic | A tragic comedy based on Abu Bakr Khaal's novella — following Eritrean migrant Abdar as he journeys north, connecting today's migrants with legendary adventurers of the past. | Development | Göteborg Film Fund; Realness African Screenwriters' Residency 2020 | Göteborg Film Fund recipient (year unspecified) | |||
Afromystic Feature Documentary | Seyi Adebanjo | Seyi Adebanjo, Nala Simone Toussaint | US Nigeria Brazil | Yoruba / Portuguese / English | A lyrical documentary following LGBTQ+ Yorùbá practitioners across Nigeria, Brazil, and the United States in a quest for post-colonial liberation through Indigenous religion. | Production | Sundance Institute | Sundance Institute Documentary Fund 2024 grantees (August 2024) ↗ | ||
Afronauts Feature | Nuotama Frances Bodomo | Ghana USA | English | Bodomo's feature debut, based on the true but largely forgotten history of the Zambian space programme launched in the 1960s by Edward Makuka Nkoloso — a secondary school teacher who trained a small group of would-be astronauts in a compound outside Lusaka. Nkoloso's mission to put a Zambian on the Moon before the Americans was funded by nothing more than conviction. Based on Bodomo's 2014 short of the same name. | Development | HBF+Europe / Hubert Bals Fund (IFFR) | HBF 2023 Development Support scheme, 10 projects selected. Based on Bodomo's 2014 short Afronauts (IFFR 2017). Ghanaian-American filmmaker. ↗ | |||
Akal Feature Documentary | Basma Rkioui | Morocco | Tamazight / Arabic / French | A former skier returns to the Atlas Mountains to explore the delicate balance between Amazigh herders and modern tourism. | Development | DFM Pitch and Finance Forum 2025 | ||||
Akashinga Feature — Fiction | Naishe Hassan Nyamubaya | Jérémie Palanque | Zimbabwe France Germany | Shona / French / English | Two sisters' lives clash when the national park bordering their village begins to hire only women — the Akashinga ranger team. | Financing | Red Sea Souk, Red Sea Film Fund | Red Sea Souk Projects / Cannes L'Atelier 2022 | ||
Alicante Feature | Lina Soualem | Easy Riders Films | Algeria France | French, Arabic | Lina Soualem's debut fiction feature. Details not yet publicly available. Soualem, born French-Algerian, is known for documentaries Their Algeria (2020) and Bye Bye Tiberias (2023, Cannes Directors' Fortnight). | Development | Atlas Workshops 2024, Development section. Lina Soualem's first fiction feature. ↗ | |||
Alléluia Feature | Zézé Gamboa | Dolce Vita Films | Angola France | Development | CNC / Aide aux Cinémas du Monde (ACM) | CNC Aide aux Cinémas du Monde — Jan/Feb 2025 commission (avant réalisation). Prod: Dolce Vita Films (France). ↗ | ||||
Aloma Feature — Fiction | Chris Ihidero | PinPoint Productions (Nigeria); Wole Ajetomobi | Nigeria | English / Yoruba / Igbo | A contemporary urban thriller set in Lagos. A love story set against a war between the privileged and unprivileged in modern Nigeria, drawn from director Chris Ihidero's experiences growing up in Oshodi and Shomolu. Cast includes Shawn Faqua, Folu Storms, Kalu Ikeagwu, Segun Arinze, Tina Mba, Juliet Ibrahim, and Elvina Ibru. | Post-Production | MBO Capital Management | PinPoint Productions announcement Dec 2025; Pulse Nigeria; NECLive 2025 coverage ↗ | ||
An Endless Night Feature | Mohamed Kassaby | Varphi Studio | Egypt | Yehia Kassem, a former investigative journalist, finds himself in a desolate Cairo as a memory illness erodes his grip on reality. | Development | Cinando (March 2026) ↗ | ||||
Animals Feature — Fiction | Morad Mostafa | Bonanza Films (Egypt); Wrong Films | EgyptFrance | Arabic | Second feature from Morad Mostafa (Aisha Can't Fly Away, Cannes UCR 2025). Follows a young man on the run, haunted by a crime involving his twin brother. Infused with horror and myth. | Development | Screen Daily / IFFR CineMart 2026 | |||
Antes da extinção Feature Documentary | Katya Aragão | São Tomé e Príncipe | Not yet available. Project announced March 18, 2026; production begins May 1, 2026. | Pre-Production | CPLP Audiovisual Programme (PAV III) | Tela Viva / CPLP announcement, March 18, 2026 ↗ | ||||
Apetown Feature — Fiction | Kurt Orderson | Bridget Pickering (BuMP Films) | South Africa Netherlands | Afrikaans / English | A rebellious Cape Town graffiti artist, after a violent encounter with private security, is swept into a parallel universe he creates through his art — linking graffiti to the rock art of his ancestry, while on the run and forced to choose between fame and identity. | Financing | Variety / IFFR CineMart 2023 ↗ | |||
Apophenia Feature — Fiction | Loukman Ali | Uganda South Africa | English | Johannesburg-set actioner: a pickpocket teams up with a terminally ill cop for a high-stakes heist. | Development | Black Mic Mac co-productions 2024 | ||||
Arab Love Series | Nejib Belkadhi | Tunisia Egypt KSA Morocco Qatar | An online love between an Egyptian mother and a Tunisian flight attendant ignites family wars, social media violence, and impossible choices. | Development | Doha Film Institute (DFI) | Qumra 2026 selection ↗ | ||||
As mulheres e a timbila Documentary Short | André Estêvão Bahule | Mozambique | Not yet available. Project announced March 18, 2026; production begins May 1, 2026. | Pre-Production | CPLP Audiovisual Programme (PAV III) | Tela Viva / CPLP announcement, March 18, 2026 ↗ | ||||
Au nom du Roi Njoya (In the Name of King Njoya) Feature — Animation | Claye Edou | Cameroon | French / Fulfulde | An animated epic chronicling the reign of a 19th-century king who defied colonialism and created his own writing system. | Development | DFM Pitch and Finance Forum 2025 | ||||
Bab El Sahra Feature — Fiction | Salem Brahimi | Alexandre Gavras | Algeria France | Arabic / French | A gendarme's brother returns to his hometown in the Algerian desert and triggers deadly events at a nearby mine. | Development | Montpellier Cinemed Meetings 2024 | |||
Bako Feature — Fiction | Boma Iluma | Boma Iluma | Nigeria | English | In a near-future Nigeria where aliens live alongside humans, their technology propels the nation into a powerful boom that divides society — placing a once-in-a-generation love on the fault line of a changing world. | Development | Next Narrative Africa Fund (NNAF) | NNAF inaugural slate announcement, March 12, 2026 ↗ | ||
Barcha Feature | Nada Mezni Hafaiedh | Tunisia | Arabic | Post-Production | Cairo Film Connection 10th edition, November 2024. Feature documentary in post-production. ↗ | |||||
Bardi Feature Documentary | Tala Hadid | Morocco France Qatar | Through the rhythm of bodies, horses, dust and song, Bardi explores contemporary questions of masculinity and transformation. | Complete / Festival-Ready | Doha Film Institute (DFI) | Qumra 2026 selection ↗ | ||||
Bella Feature — Fiction | Mohcine Besri | Morocco | Arabic / French | A seventy-something widow falls in love, upsetting social conventions — her son judges the romance while her daughter watches her once-distant mother embrace love. | Development | Montpellier Cinemed Meetings 2024 | ||||
Bergies Feature — Fiction | Dian Weys | Émilie Dubois (Insolence Productions) | South Africa France | Afrikaans / English | A debut feature thematically related to Weys' award-winning short Vultures (Cannes 2025 Unifrance Grand Prix) — focused on accountability, vulnerability, and power dynamics in contemporary South Africa. | Development | Cineuropa / Cannes Focus COPRO' 2025 ↗ | |||
Beyond Day Zero Feature — Fiction | Trevor Noah, Sanaz Yamin, Rebekah Cheyne | South Africa | English | The wealthy daughter of a water tycoon joins a gangster from the townships to revolt against her father and tear down the wall dividing their world. | Development | Next Narrative Africa Fund (NNAF) | NNAF inaugural slate announcement, March 12, 2026 ↗ | |||
Big Boys Don't Cry Feature | Muhammad Mustapha | Hala Lotfy, Philipp Raube | Egypt Germany | Arabic | A documentary in which filmmaker Muhammad Mustapha positions bodyguard Yehia — who doesn't know he's being filmed — to perform his everyday raw masculine persona for the camera. Yehia thinks he owns the frame; the director has entirely different intentions. A close study of performance, masculinity, and the camera's gaze in contemporary Egypt. | Post-Production | Red Sea Film Fund | Red Sea Fund 2022–2023 production grants. Cairo Film Connection 2024 (post-production stage). Estimated delivery 2025. ↗ | ||
Black Snake Feature — Fiction | Naishe Nyamubaya | Sue-Ellen Chitunya (263 Reels Productions, Zimbabwe/USA) | Zimbabwe | Shona / English | A supernatural mystery. Janet, her mother Gogo, her husband Petros and son Tino move into a remote rural village in Zimbabwe's eastern highlands, hiding their true identities. They are followed by a mysterious tree. Anchored in landscapes and a cultural world rarely seen on screen. | Financing | Locarno Open Doors 2025 — top prize winner, Aug 12 2025 ↗ | |||
Blacked Out Dreams Feature Documentary | Adeleke Omitowoju | Steven Pargett | USA Nigeria | English | Rapid school closures and a water crisis — the lives of three children navigating the last public high school in a city divided by race and poverty. | Post-Production | Sundance Institute | Sundance Institute Documentary Fund 2024 | ||
Blue Card Feature Narrative | Mohammed Alomda | Mohammed Alomda, Amjad Abu Alala | Sudan Egypt Germany Saudi Arabia France Norway | Arabic | Abdullah flees alone to Egypt after the outbreak of war in Sudan, and begins planning to smuggle his family to safety. To earn the money he needs, he takes a demeaning job at a Cairo nursing home, where unexpected relationships start to reshape his decisions and his future. | Pre-Production | Berlinale World Cinema Fund (WCF), CineGouna / El Gouna Film Festival, Red Sea Lodge, MBC Studios, AFAC — Arab Fund for Arts and Culture | MAD World | WCF 42nd jury session (October 2025) ↗ | |
Border Feature — Fiction | Idrissou Mora Kpai | Arouna Mora Kpai | Benin Nigeria | French / Yoruba | After ten years, Abe returns to Benin to visit his dying grandfather. At Lagos airport, he meets Safurat — an Afro-Soul singer also heading to Cotonou. Stuck together at the Seme border town for 48 hours, their unexpected adventure begins. | Financing | Noble Films / Cannes market pitch | |||
Brace Yourself Feature | Thati Pele | Cait Pansegrouw, Elias Ribeiro (Urucu Media) | South Africa Netherlands | On a failed romantic island getaway, straitlaced orthodontist Dr Shaloba Molefe decides to kidnap her unravelling family and won't let them leave until they love her again. | Pre-Production | NFVF / Netherlands Film Fund — Thuthuka Co-Development Fund, Netherlands Film Fund, Topic / Statement Films | Variety (May 2022); NFVF FY 2023/24 Annual Report — Thuthuka production grant R5,000,000 to Urucu Media ↗ | |||
Brothers Feature | Aliou Sow | Sébastien Onomo | Mauritania | French, Arabic | Post-Production | Red Sea Film Fund | Red Sea Fund 2022 Cycle 2 production grantee. Mauritanian feature fiction directed by Aliou Sow. Produced by Sébastien Onomo (same producer on multiple Francophone African films). ↗ | |||
Bupya (Renewed) Feature — Fiction | Dipo Abdul Osiyemi | Rwanda | Kinyarwanda | A man attempts to rebuild his life after trauma in this story of personal rebirth set in Rwanda. | Development | DFM Pitch and Finance Forum 2025 | ||||
Cabo Verde: 50 anos de independência Documentary Short | Ricardo Leote | Cape Verde | Not yet available. Project announced March 18, 2026; production begins May 1, 2026. | Pre-Production | CPLP Audiovisual Programme (PAV III) | Tela Viva / CPLP announcement, March 18, 2026 ↗ | ||||
Caminhu longe Fiction Short | Carlos Manuel Ferreira Nobre Dias | Cape Verde | Not yet available. Project announced March 18, 2026; production begins May 1, 2026. | Pre-Production | CPLP Audiovisual Programme (PAV III) | Tela Viva / CPLP announcement, March 18, 2026 ↗ | ||||
Captain Mbaye Feature — Fiction | Joel Karekezi | Katy Lena Ndiaye | Senegal Rwanda | French / Wolof / Kinyarwanda | Senegalese Captain Mbaye Diagne travels to Kigali in 1993 as an unarmed UN observer during Rwanda's ethnically charged civil war. He saves hundreds of lives at enormous personal risk. | Development | Red Sea Film Fund, Fonds Image de la Francophonie (OIF / FIF) | IndigoMood Films / Tact Production | ||
Caridad Fiction Short | Raimundo Bernabé Nnandong Abeso Nchama | Equatorial Guinea | Not yet available. Project announced March 18, 2026; production begins May 1, 2026. | Pre-Production | CPLP Audiovisual Programme (PAV III) | Tela Viva / CPLP announcement, March 18, 2026 ↗ | ||||
Carnaval Feature | Mohamed Siam | Linked Productions | Egypt Kuwait Jordan | Development | Cinando (March 2026) ↗ | |||||
Chapa 100 Feature — Fiction | Ique Langa | Lara Sousa (Kulunga Filmes) | MozambiqueSouth Africa | Portuguese | A love story between aging street vendors in Mozambique that takes on magical realist and poetic dimensions. | Production | Luminalia | Atlas Workshops 2025 prize, Marrakech Film Festival, December 2025 | ||
Climbing the Mountains Feature Documentary | Sabrina Chebbi | Algeria France Qatar | Arabic / Kabyle | A filmmaker reconnects with her Kabyle roots to examine generational trauma through memory, music, and archival fragments. | Production | Doha Film Institute (DFI) | DFM Pitch and Finance Forum 2025 / DFI Qumra 2025 | |||
Coconut Feature | Karabo Lediga | Bongiwe Selane, Dineo Lusenga | South Africa | Development | NFVF Annual Report 2023/24 (development mention); DFM 2023 — won TRT Cinema Award and JCC Carthage Pro/Chabaka Prize ↗ | |||||
Corruption Is An English Word Feature — Fiction | Zoe Ramushu | Rea Moeti-Vogt | South Africa | English / Zulu | A 12-year-old girl on a white-owned farm watches her world unravel after her father is falsely accused of theft. | Development | DFM Pitch and Finance Forum 2025 | |||
Coumba Feature Narrative | Mamadou Dia | Senegal France | Wolof / French | A detective returns to her hometown to investigate a murder connected to Coumba, a hoofed spirit, on the year's first full moon. | Development | HBF+Europe / Hubert Bals Fund (IFFR) | HBF Development Support 2025 (July 2025) ↗ | |||
Coura & Ouleye Feature — Fiction | Iman Djionne | Souleymane Kebe | Senegal | Wolof / French / Sereer | Two young sisters from a polygamous family get to know each other after the death of their father. | Development | Maïssa Fund (French Embassy Senegal), Red Sea Souk | Maïssa Fund March 2024 / Red Sea Souk Projects | ||
Crocodile Dance Feature — Animation | Shofela Coker & Nadia Darries | South Africa Nigeria | English | A young girl and a mystical crocodile spirit join forces to stop a looming darkness in this folklore-inspired adventure. | Development | DFM Pitch and Finance Forum 2025 | ||||
Dambe Feature — Fiction | Ramsey Nouah | Chris Odeh (Sozo Films / BRS Studios) | Nigeria | Hausa / English | A historical epic set in 11th-century Kano following a young fighter's coming of age through Dambe, the ancient Hausa martial art. At its core a story about legacy, strength, and finding purpose in tradition. | Financing | MBO Capital Management | BRS Studios 2025 slate announcement (Variety exclusive, May 2025); Pulse Nigeria; What Kept Me Up 2026 anticipated titles ↗ | ||
Dear Ajayi Feature Narrative | Damilola Orimogunje | Damilola Orimogunje, Bose Oshin | Nigeria Germany | Yoruba / English | In 1990s southwestern Nigeria, two estranged sisters are forced to care for their paralysed mother after their father's sudden death, navigating grief, ambition, love, and the fragile bonds of family. | Post-Production | HBF+Europe / Hubert Bals Fund (IFFR), Ouaga Film Lab, Berlinale World Cinema Fund (WCF) | HBF+Europe Post-Production Support 2025 (announced March 2026) ↗ | ||
Dear Sis Dolly Feature | Twigg Matiwana | South Africa | Set on the eve of Drum Magazine's 75th anniversary, a quirky, idealistic psychologist navigates career and relationships in contemporary South Africa. | Post-Production | Known Associates Distribution | Cinando (March 2026) ↗ | ||||
Deserto para viver Feature Documentary | Inês Ribeiro da Cunha Oliveira | Angola | Not yet available. Project announced March 18, 2026; production begins May 1, 2026. | Pre-Production | CPLP Audiovisual Programme (PAV III) | Tela Viva / CPLP announcement, March 18, 2026 ↗ | ||||
Dogmas Feature — Fiction | Salah Issaad | Taqiyeddine Issaad | Algeria France | Algerian Arabic / Classical Arabic | Two brothers — one who joins the army, one who joins the FIS — become fierce enemies as Algeria descends into civil war after the military annuls elections. Set in the 1990s Black Decade. | Financing | Independent development. Venice Gap-Financing Market 2026 — Venice Production Bridge, 4–6 September 2026 | |||
Don't Let the Sun Go Up On Me Feature — Documentary | Asmae El Moudir | Morocco France Norway Denmark Chile | A hybrid documentary odyssey. Fatimazahra, a young Moroccan woman born with xeroderma pigmentosum — a rare genetic condition making sunlight fatal — founded an online community known as the "Children of the Moon." She died in 2023. Her sister Meriem, who shared her nocturnal life for years, gathers six of Fatimazahra's online friends (meeting in person for the first time) and leads them on a journey to Norway's Lofoten Islands, where polar night lasts for months. Meriem transforms grief into action — carrying her sister's dream of living normally in a world designed for darkness. | Post-Production | Eurimages, HBF+Europe / Hubert Bals Fund (IFFR), AFAC — Arab Fund for Arts and Culture | Autlook Filmsales | CPH:DOX Roughcut strand March 2026. Won Eurimages New Lab Outreach Award €30,000 (CPH:DOX 2026). HBF+Europe Minority Co-Production Support (March 2026). Atlas Workshops Marrakech 2025 (work-in-progress). Autlook Filmsales attached. Delivery: March-April 2027. Asmae El Moudir confirmed Moroccan filmmaker (Rabat). ↗. Venice Gap-Financing Market 2026 — Venice Production Bridge, 4–6 September 2026 | |||
Dowar Alqamar (The Sunflowers of the Moon) Feature — Fiction | ismaël | Tunisia | Arabic | Spanning three eras, a poetic fantasy follows a girl whose life reflects Tunisia's past, revolution, and imagined future. | Development | DFM Pitch and Finance Forum 2025 | ||||
Dwellers of the Cabins Feature — Fiction | Hend Bakr | Egypt Qatar | Arabic | Not yet publicly available. | Post-Production | CineGouna / El Gouna Film Festival, Doha Film Institute (DFI) | CineGouna Platform 2024 | |||
El Bastardiya Feature | Abdullah Al-Ghaly | Hala Lotfy | Libya Egypt | Arabic | Post-Production | Red Sea Film Fund, AFAC — Arab Fund for Arts and Culture | Red Sea Fund 2022 Cycle 2 production grantee. Libyan/Egyptian co-production. Working title: Once Upon a Time in Tripoli. Produced by Hala Lotfy (established Egyptian producer — Captains of Zaatari, etc.). ↗ | |||
Eldorado Feature | Alaa Eddine Aljem | Francesca Duca / Le Moindre Geste (Morocco), In Vivo Films (France) | Morocco Italy | Arabic | A group of migrants set out to reach the legendary utopian island of Eldorado. They arrive instead at a factory of the same name — a tomato sauce processing plant. | Development | CNC / Aide aux Cinémas du Monde (ACM), Doha Film Institute (DFI) | CNC Aide aux Cinémas du Monde comités de chiffrage. IFFR CineMart 2023 (Screen Daily, December 2022). Atlas Workshops 2020. ↗ | ||
Elsewhere Feature — Fiction | Issraa Elkogali Häggström | Sudan Sweden | Arabic / Swedish | Not yet publicly available. | Development | CineGouna / El Gouna Film Festival | CineGouna Platform 2024 | |||
Empalikino Feature Documentary | Eric Mwangi | Kenya | Swahili / English | Not yet publicly available. | Development | Sunny Side of the Doc 2024 | ||||
Enkop (The Soil) Feature Narrative | Angela Wanjiku Wamai | Kenya Netherlands | Swahili / English | After her husband's suicide, 55-year-old Lorna Marwa sets out to reclaim her life and her stake in the volatile, contested ranch land of Kenya. | Financing | HBF+Europe / Hubert Bals Fund (IFFR) | HBF Development Support 2024; CineMart 2025 (IFFR) ↗ | |||
Essaamay — Jules François Bocandé Feature | Maky Madiba Sylla | Senegal | Wolof, French | A documentary about Jules François Bocandé, a legendary Senegalese football player and coach. Bocandé (1958–2012) was one of Senegal's first international football stars, playing for Metz in France's top division in the 1980s, and later managing the Senegalese national team. The title is his nickname. | Post-Production | Fonds Image de la Francophonie (OIF / FIF) | Fonds Image de la Francophonie Documentary Commission, September 2023. €20,000 production grant. Maky Madiba Sylla is a Senegalese filmmaker. ↗ | |||
Essarha Feature Narrative | Salma El Belghiti | Morocco | Development | Fondation Tamayouz Cinema TAP03 selection, March 2026 | ||||||
Every Other Girl Feature Documentary | Abdoulie B. Jarju | Gambia Uganda | English | Not yet publicly available. | Development | Sunny Side of the Doc 2024, La Rochelle, June 24–27, 2024 | ||||
Everything She Didn't Say Feature Documentary | Farah Abada | Algeria France Qatar | After my journalist father was murdered in Algeria's Black Decade, memory and humour reveal how our family learned to survive. | Production | Doha Film Institute (DFI) | Qumra 2026 selection ↗ | ||||
Eziko Feature — Fiction | Babalwa Baartman, Jenna Cato Bass | Sanusi Films; Miss K Productions | South Africa | Xhosa / English | An Afro-noir mystery in which a young academic travels into the rural Eastern Cape to search for her long-lost sister. | Financing | IFFR CineMart 2025 ↗ | |||
Fagadaga Feature — Fiction | Yoro Mbaye | Souleymane Kebe | Senegal | Wolof / French | Details not publicly available. Debut feature from Senegalese director Yoro Mbaye. | Financing | CNC / La Fabrique Cinéma de l'Institut français | La Fabrique Cinéma 2023 selection; Afrocritik ↗ | ||
Femi Feature — Fiction | Dwight Fagbamila | Nigeria Netherlands Germany | English / Yoruba | The emotionally rich, darkly magical story of a young and troublesome student in search of his roots. | Post-Production | Media Luna New Films (worldwide) | Media Luna New Films production | |||
Flower of the Sand Feature Documentary | Jaouad Babili | Morocco Qatar | Arabic / Darija | A courageous woman in her fifties opens a café near Dakhla following the destruction of undocumented fishing boats by authorities. | Production | Doha Film Institute (DFI) | DFI Qumra 2025 (April 2025) | |||
Frescos of the Forgotten Feature | Amédée Pacôme Nkoulou | The Dark (France) | Gabon France | Broken and with a fractured hand, Kinga manages to find solace with Makoto, an old artist who tirelessly paints the city walls with murals of people who have been forgotten. | Development | CNC / Aide aux Cinémas du Monde (ACM), CNC / La Fabrique Cinéma de l'Institut français, Fonds pour la Jeune Création Francophone (JCF) | Cinando (March 2026); CNC Aide aux Cinémas du Monde — Jan/Feb 2025 commission (avant réalisation), prod: The Dark (France). ↗ | |||
Friche! et les décombres se souviennent Feature | Jean-Marie Téno | Cameroon France | French | Post-Production | Fonds Image de la Francophonie (OIF / FIF) | Fonds Image de la Francophonie Documentary-Series Commission, April 2024. €40,000 production grant. Jean-Marie Téno is a veteran Cameroonian documentary filmmaker known for Africa I Will Fleece You (1992) and other political essay films. Based France. ↗ | ||||
Galatians Feature — Fiction | Michael Omonua | Abba Makama, Ife Koleowo, Chin Okeke (EP) | Nigeria | English | A satirical drama. Mama, a theatre practitioner in her fifties, installs a hired actor, Julius, as pastor of her new church. Staged miracle healings draw crowds and rapid growth, until her daughter Marie’s resistance threatens the whole operation. | Financing | La Fabrique Cinéma 2023 — Institut français official announcement (first Nigerian project selected)↗ | |||
Ghost Ship Feature | Moïse Togo | Senegal Mali | A hybrid documentary and animation linking both ends of a migration route — setting up a dialogue between those who have disappeared and those who remain. | Production | CNC — Aide aux Cinémas du Monde (ACM), Visions Sud Est — Swiss Film Fund | Cinando (March 2026) | ||||
Girl of Wind Feature Narrative | Moufida Fedhila | Tunisia Qatar | Skateboarding offers Aida escape in Tunisia, until her dying father returns, forcing her to confront the past and choose her future. | Production | Doha Film Institute (DFI), Visions Sud Est — Swiss Film Fund | Qumra 2026 selection ↗ | ||||
Golden Feature Documentary | Rumbi Katedza | Rumbi Katedza; Ingrid Martens | Zimbabwe | English / Shona | The Zimbabwe women's national hockey team's journey to the 2025 Women's FIH Hockey Junior World Cup — 45 years after the country won its only Olympic medal in a team sport. | Financing | DOK.fest München Award — Durban FilmMart 2025, CANAL+ Development Grant — €5,000 | Durban FilmMart 2025 (July 2025) — Screen Daily ↗ | ||
Green Island Girls Feature | Rogena Tarek | Egypt | Arabic | Development | AFAC — Arab Fund for Arts and Culture | AFAC Documentary Film 2025 grantee (production grant). Announced Aug 27, 2025. ↗ | ||||
Hamlet From The Slums Feature Narrative | Ahmed Fawzi-Saleh | Egypt France KSA Qatar | Ahmed, the son of Cairo's junkyard king, has to avenge his best friend's death, even if it means confronting his father. | Post-Production | Doha Film Institute (DFI), Fonds Image de la Francophonie (OIF / FIF) | Qumra 2026 selection ↗ | ||||
High Flyers TV Series — Fiction | Ian Gabriel | South Africa | English / Afrikaans | A young pilot and his crew smuggle goods across borders in this fast-paced aerial crime series set in Cape Town. | Development | DFM Pitch and Finance Forum 2025 | ||||
Hold Time For Me Feature | Fradique | Laura Kloeckner / SEERA Films (Germany) | Angola Germany Spain | Portuguese | In a country where trees talk and cars become boats in the desert, a grieving young Angolan state photographer is assigned to find a Cuban biologist who disappeared 30 years ago after joining a secret expedition to locate a new capital for Angola. | Development | Atlas Workshops / Marrakech IFF | Atlas Workshops 2023, Development section — won Atlas Development Award €5,000. IFFR CineMart 2024. Produced by SEERA Films (Germany) / Migranta Films / Uika Filmes. ↗ | ||
Holy Cow Feature — Fiction | Asmae El Moudir | Morocco | Darija / French | A man who finds his first job as a truck driver transporting cattle to Rabat slaughterhouses loses two escaped cows during a delivery and becomes the scapegoat for the ensuing chaos. | Financing | Red Sea Souk | Screen Daily / Cannes Résidence session 46 ↗ | |||
I'm Coming for You Feature Narrative | Cyrielle Raingou | Cyrielle Raingou, Alice Abah | Cameroon France Germany Ivory Coast | Hausa / Fulfuldé / French | Abandoned by her husband and raising her three-month-old daughter alone, Kaltoumi is forced to traffic goods with Boko Haram militants in the Sahel region. Cast out from her community after being exposed, she joins forces with a radical group of women who fight against terrorists and the domination of men. | Post-Production | World Cinema Fund (WCF) — Berlinale, OIF — Fonds Image de la Francophonie, Kirch Foundation, FILMAC — Prix Filmac, Visions Sud Est — Swiss Film Fund, French Institute of Cameroon, Canal+, Fonds Jeune Création Francophone (JCF), CNC — Avance sur recettes | WCF 40th jury session (July 2024); Variety exclusive July 22, 2024 ↗ | ||
Ici Repose Feature | Moly Kane | Senegal | Wolof, French | Development | Atlas Workshops 2024, Development section. Moly Kane's debut feature. ↗ | |||||
Il Padre Selvaggio Feature | Sammy Baloji | Rosa Spaliviero / Twenty Nine Studio & Production (Italy) | Congo (DRC) Belgium Italy | French, Lingala | A modern Congo-set adaptation of Pier Paolo Pasolini's 1962 unproduced screenplay. An idealistic Italian teacher arrives in the DRC and encounters Davidson, a Congolese student torn between his teacher's progressive idealism and the weight of colonial legacy and traditional family education. Through archive footage and scenes of capitalist extractivism, the film confronts the DRC's ongoing struggles with mineral extraction, ethnic conflict, and fractured social fabric. | Development | Atlas Workshops 2023 — WON ArteKino International Prize €6,000. Sammy Baloji is Congolese multidisciplinary artist (born Lubumbashi, DRC; based Brussels). As of 2025 he is still planning to make this as his next feature (confirmed THR interview, IFFR 2025). ↗ | |||
Il était une fois Diego Garcia Feature | Selven Naidu | Mauritius | French, Creole | Post-Production | Fonds Image de la Francophonie (OIF / FIF) | Fonds Image de la Francophonie Documentary Commission, September 2023. €80,000 production grant (with ACP-EU bonus). Mauritian documentary. ↗ | ||||
In the Name of Safia Feature Documentary | Safia Kessas | Algeria Belgium France Qatar | Arabic / French | The filmmaker's journey to uncover her past, challenging the silence and shame imposed on women in her family. | Development | Doha Film Institute (DFI) | DFI Qumra 2025 (April 2025) | |||
Innocent Feature — Fiction | Arie Esiri | Arie Esiri, Chuko Esiri | Nigeria | English | A whodunnit set in Lagos, Nigeria. | Development | Next Narrative Africa Fund (NNAF) | NNAF inaugural slate announcement, March 12, 2026 ↗ | ||
Jollof Wars Feature — Fiction / Animation | Hamid Ibrahim | Kugali Media | West Africa UK | English | In a world where chefs summon ancestral spirits to cook, a talented orphan without a spirit must team up with a jaded heiress to reclaim the soul of West African cuisine in a magical cookery competition. | Development | Next Narrative Africa Fund (NNAF) | NNAF inaugural slate announcement, March 12, 2026 ↗ | ||
Jorge, o anti-herói Fiction Short | Carla Vaz | São Tomé e Príncipe | Not yet available. Project announced March 18, 2026; production begins May 1, 2026. | Pre-Production | CPLP Audiovisual Programme (PAV III) | Tela Viva / CPLP announcement, March 18, 2026 ↗ | ||||
Journal Intime d'une Femme-Chèvre Feature — Documentary / Animation Hybrid | Azata Soro | Nameïta Lica Touré (Les Studios Indigo / TSK Films, Côte d'Ivoire/Burkina Faso) | Côte d'Ivoire Burkina Faso | French / Dioula | A documentary-animation hybrid. A woman contemplates the life she wants her daughter to live. A powerful and poetic project confronting silence, tradition, and trauma — the journey of a woman who refuses submission and gives voice to what is often left unsaid. | Financing | Locarno Open Doors 2025 official selection + awards Aug 12 2025 ↗ | |||
Jua Kali Feature | Joash Omondi | Kenya | Diana, a single mother working as a housekeeper, secretly sedates her young son with alcohol in his breakfast so she can work without interruption — a desperate act that sets off a chain of consequences. | Development | Cinando (March 2026) ↗ | |||||
Kachifo (Till the Morning Comes) Feature — Fiction | Dika Ofoma | Blessing Uzzi (Bluhouse Studios, Nigeria) | Nigeria | Igbo / English | A reincarnation romance spanning pre-colonial and contemporary Igbo society. A warrior chief and a young maiden, separated by his betrothal to another, vow to reunite if they ever walk the earth again. The story follows the lovers' reunion in the present day. | Financing | Locarno Open Doors 2025 official selection + award announcement Aug 12 2025 ↗ | |||
Karama Feature Documentary | Fatym Layachi | Lazrak Younes | Morocco | A documentary following six Gen Z voices across contemporary Morocco. | Development | Fondation Tamayouz Cinema TAP03 selection, March 2026 | ||||
Karatara Feature — Documentary | Teboho Edkins | Teboho Edkins / Muyi Film | South Africa Netherlands | Afrikaans / English | A ghost film in which the ghosts, both real and imagined, haunt the lives of a racially mixed community in Karatara — a small post-apartheid settlement for retired white forestry workers that has become South Africa's most racially integrated yet deeply unharmonious town. | Development | NFVF / Netherlands Film Fund — Thuthuka Co-Development Fund | Screen Daily / SA-NL Thuthuka Fund 2023 ↗ | ||
Kintuadi: Simon Kimbangu Feature — Animation | Benny Lusakueno | Democratic Republic of Congo | French / Kikongo | A spiritual drama exploring the life of Simon Kimbangu, a Congolese preacher jailed for defying colonial powers in 1921. | Development | DFM Pitch and Finance Forum 2025 | ||||
La Pyramide Feature Narrative | CJ 'Fiery' Obasi | Abbas Nokhasteh, Andres Borda Gonzalez | Nigeria Senegal United Kingdom US Brazil | Souls across three continents must confront the darkness that guards the light they seek. | Post-Production | Red Sea Souk 2025 Works-in-Progress — Nollywood Reporter, December 2025 ↗ | ||||
Laatie Feature — Fiction | Winford Collings | Deidré Jantjies | South Africa | Afrikaans / English | Details not publicly available. Debut feature from South African director Winford Collings, produced by Deidré Jantjies (producer of Carissa, the 2024 Venice Orizzonti selection). | Development | Biennale College Cinema (La Biennale di Venezia) | Biennale College Cinema 14th edition 12-project workshop selection announcement; Venice 2025 ↗ | ||
Last Cow Feature Narrative | Amil Shivji | Tamara Mariam Dawit | Tanzania | Swahili / Maa | In a remote Maasai village, a cow that survives an arrow to the neck becomes a local sensation, igniting a satire about conservation and tourism at the expense of indigenous communities and ancestral land. | Development | Hubert Bals Fund (HBF) — IFFR | Hubert Bals Fund Development Support 2025 — IFFR official announcement↗ | ||
Latifa Fiction Short | Obiang Nguema Esono | Equatorial Guinea | Not yet available. Project announced March 18, 2026; production begins May 1, 2026. | Pre-Production | CPLP Audiovisual Programme (PAV III) | Tela Viva / CPLP announcement, March 18, 2026 ↗ | ||||
Le ciel n'est pas bleu Feature Narrative | Lamisse Khairat | Morocco | Development | Fondation Tamayouz Cinema TAP03 selection, March 2026 | ||||||
Le Parcours (The Circuit) Feature Documentary | Arice Siapi | Martinel Nemalieu, Eléonore Boissinot, Claire Babany | Cameroon France | Hausa / Fulfuldé / French | Bana Manga, known as Grand Bana, spent a decade trafficking motorcycles between Nigeria, Cameroon, and the Central African Republic before converting to traditional griot music. Though his song Maroua has over 300,000 YouTube views, his earnings as an artist are not enough. To fund his debut album — the project he hopes will change his life — he agrees to undertake one last perilous journey with his former trafficking companions. | Development | Berlinale World Cinema Fund Europe (WCF Europe), Fonds Image de la Francophonie (OIF / FIF), Hot Docs Blue-Ice Fund, Norwegian Sørfond, MiradasDoc Afrolatam Lab Award | WCF 42nd jury session / WCF Europe (October 2025) ↗ | ||
Le Peuple Feature | Rahma Benhamou El Madani | Plein Cadres | Algeria France | Three former members of the Algerian cultural workers' troupe 'Action Culturelle des Travailleurs' — directed by playwright Kateb Yacine — reflect on the troupe's legacy and the politics of cultural resistance. | Development | Adler and Associates Entertainment Inc. | Cinando (March 2026) ↗ | |||
Le Sanglier (The Boar) Feature — Fiction | Mamadou Socrate Diop | Senegal | Wolof / French | A man known as 'The Boar' returns home haunted by grief, guilt, and exile in this character study of trauma and redemption. | Development | DFM Pitch and Finance Forum 2025 | ||||
Legacy Feature — Documentary | Mamadou Dia | Senegal France | Wolof / French | Third feature from the director of Nafi's Father (Locarno Golden Leopard 2019) and Demba (Berlinale 2024). | Post-Production | Final Cut in Venice (La Biennale di Venezia) | Venice Production Bridge / Final Cut in Venice 2025 ↗ | |||
Leila's Trial Feature | Charlie Kouka | Tunisia | Fourteen-year-old Leïla lives in Cité Nour, a crumbling neighbourhood in a small Tunisian town threatened by demolition for a real-estate scheme. Her adolescence unravels as the community fights for survival. | Development | CNC / La Fabrique Cinéma de l'Institut français, CNC / Aide aux Cinémas du Monde (ACM) | Cinando (March 2026) ↗ | ||||
Les Bilokos Feature — Documentary | Erickey Bahati | Giresse Kassonga (Gikas Films, DRC); Florent Coulon (VraiVrai Films, France) | Congo (DRC) France | Swahili / French | Assumani, a former soldier and amputee, tries to rebuild his life by recycling worn-out banknotes, with the help of two young protégés. He leads a group of fellow 'bilokos' — ex-combatants, children of soldiers, and forgotten souls — living in Goma's overcrowded Katindo military camp. 'Bilokos' is a Congolese term for worn-out goods repurposed. | Financing | CNC / DEENTAL-ACP | Locarno Open Doors 2025; Screen Daily profile; Locarno awards Aug 12 2025 ↗ | ||
Les Dieux Délinquants Feature | Boubacar Sangaré | Boubacar Sangaré / BES Ciné (Burkina Faso), Madeline Robert / Les Films de la Caravane (France) | Burkina Faso France | French, Mooré | Seventeen-year-old Titenga leaves his traditional West African village pursuing the promise of opportunity in the capital, only to collide with urban poverty. Drawn into a fragile network of street children and guided by Ibrahim, he becomes a 'douanébi' — one of the boys who tax passersby to survive. As hardship hardens him, Titenga drifts between rebellion and delinquency, rising to lead a gang of marginalised youth, imagining himself at the head of a popular revolt — blurring myth, hallucination, and lived experience. | Development | Atlas Workshops / Marrakech IFF | Atlas Workshops 2025, Development section — WON Atlas Development Prize €20,000. Boubacar Sangaré's debut fiction feature after documentary A Golden Life (Berlinale Forum 2022). Cineuropa report December 2025. ↗ | ||
Les Lacets de Jerada Feature Narrative | Lamia Bengelloun | Yasmine Mahjoubi | Morocco | Development | Fondation Tamayouz Cinema TAP03 selection, March 2026 | |||||
Let the Earth Burn TV Series — Fiction | Sofia Alaoui & Måns Mårlind | Morocco | Arabic / Darija / French | Six-episode crime series set in Morocco's Atlas Mountains. | Development | Black Mic Mac co-productions 2024 | ||||
Life Is a Railroad Feature — Fiction | Kevin Mavakala, Manassé Kashala, Tousmy Kilo, Isaac Sahani | Kiripifilms; Luchafilms (Congo DR) | Congo (DRC) France Germany | French / Lingala | Christine is head of the finance department at the Kintambo maternity hospital. Her job is to ensure all patients have paid their hospital fees. The system around her begins to fracture when she meets Rémy. | Post-Production | Final Cut in Venice (La Biennale di Venezia) | Final Cut in Venice 2023 official selection; AlloCiné listing (2024 release date noted) ↗ | ||
Like a Feather in the Breeze Series | Sherif Elbendary | Egypt Qatar | Although Tarek and Laila are both searching for their soulmates, they cross paths without ever truly meeting, until Madame Salwa decides to step in. | Development | Doha Film Institute (DFI) | Qumra 2026 selection ↗ | ||||
Lily's Mecca Feature | Marwa Zein | Marwa Zein / ORE Productions (Sudan/Germany) | Sudan Germany | Arabic | Development | Red Sea Film Fund, Göteborg Film Fund, AFAC — Arab Fund for Arts and Culture | Marwa Zein's debut fiction feature in development. Previously titled Lily's Double Planet. Multiple development fund support. Noted in Red Sea Fund 2022 production cycle grantees. ↗ | |||
Liti Liti Feature Documentary | Mamadou Khouma Gueye | Senegal Belgium | Wolof / French | Follows the launch of Africa's first high-speed train (Senegal's TER) and its impact on the communities it connects. | Development | Belgium CCA — Centre du Cinéma et de l'Audiovisuel | Belgium CCA Cinema Commission 2024 | |||
Lonan Tchè Feature | Joël Akafou | Côte d'Ivoire | Dioula, French | Post-Production | Fonds Image de la Francophonie (OIF / FIF) | Fonds Image de la Francophonie Documentary-Series Commission, April 2024. €80,000 production (with ACP-EU bonus). Joël Akafou's documentary. ↗ | ||||
Londoner Feature — Fiction | Babatunde Apalowo | Polymath Pictures (Nigeria); Cato Street Productions and Sixteen Films (UK) | Nigeria United Kingdom | English | Details not publicly available. Second feature from director Babatunde Apalowo, whose debut All the Colours of the World Are Between Black and White won the Tiger Award at IFFR 2023. | Financing | Berlinale Co-Production Market 2024 announcement; Screen Daily / Deadline coverage ↗ | |||
Looking for Bacchus Feature Documentary | Ali Essafi | Morocco | Arabic, French | In 1982, a statue of Bacchus vanished from the Roman site of Volubilis in Morocco. The neighboring village, unjustly suspected of the theft, was surrounded by military and intelligence forces. Inhabitants were subjected to extreme physical and psychological torture. Ali Essafi investigates this forgotten episode of state repression during the reign of King Hassan II. | Development | IDFA Bertha Fund, AFAC — Arab Fund for Arts and Culture | IDFA Bertha Fund IBF Classic Fall 2024 selection. Arab Culture Fund also listed. ↗ | |||
Love Imagined Feature | Sarah Rozik | Red Star for Production and Distribution | Egypt | Post-Production | Cinando (March 2026) ↗ | |||||
Lucky Girl Feature | Linda Lô | Senegal | Wolof, French | Development | TorinoFilmLab | Atlas Workshops 2024, Development section. Linda Lô's debut feature. ↗ | ||||
Lutteurs Feature — Fiction | Alassane Sy | Jules Soulaymane Dieng (Thiely Films, Senegal) | Senegal | Wolof / French | A wrestling family drama set in Senegal. A story of a Senegalese wrestling family navigating the tension between tradition, legacy, and the pressures of modern life. | Financing | Locarno Open Doors 2025 official selection; Variety / Deadline / Screen Daily June–Aug 2025 ↗ | |||
Lënd Feature | Katy Léna Ndiaye | Senegal | Wolof, French | Katy Léna Ndiaye's debut fiction feature. Rising waters threaten a coastal fishing neighbourhood as a family battles to preserve their way of life. A story touching on the climate crisis set in Senegal. | Development | HBF+Europe / Hubert Bals Fund (IFFR) | HBF 2023 Development Support scheme. Katy Léna Ndiaye: Senegalese-Belgian documentary filmmaker, known for En Attendant les hommes (2007) and Freedom, Money, a Story of CFA Franc (2022, IDFA). Debut fiction feature. ↗ | |||
Mad Bounty and the Midnight Gun TV Series — Fiction | Talemwa Pius | Uganda | English | 1885, Western Uganda. Outlaw Mad Bounty hunts the British commander who killed his mother, only to uncover the Midnight Gun — a native weapon of raw power. | Development | Red Sea Lodge | Red Sea Souk 2025 SeriesLab | |||
Magma Feature | Mia Bendrimia | Mia Bendrimia, Kira Simon-Kennedy / Nazar Films, Imane Lamime / 19 Mulholland Drive | France Algeria | Arabic, French | A personal documentary in which French-Algerian filmmaker Mia Bendrimia travels to Algeria for the first time to understand her family's buried history. Her grandfather was a harki — an Algerian who fought on the French side during the independence war — a subject silenced in her household for decades. In tracing this history she discovers her grandfather's cousin was a celebrated hero of the revolution, the 'Algerian Rambo' — throwing her family's contradictions into sharp relief. Atlas 2023 post-production prize winner. | Post-Production | Atlas Workshops / Marrakech IFF, Thessaloniki 2|35 | Atlas Workshops 2023 — WON Atlas Post-Production Award €10,000. Thessaloniki Documentary Festival Agora 2025 (Docs in Progress) — WON 2|35 Post-Production Main Award. 87 minutes. Estimated delivery: mid-2025. Budget: €291,191. ↗ | ||
Mama Kaleta Feature | Joseph Avimadje | Benin | Development | Cinando (March 2026) ↗ | ||||||
Mboudgui TV Series — Animation | Bienvenu Wanso-Tissala | Cameroon France | French | Rooted in Cameroonian folklore, this 2D series follows a young trickster navigating a world of spirits and magic. | Development | DFM Pitch and Finance Forum 2025 | ||||
Mdantsane: Home of Boxing Feature Documentary | Pumlani Veto | Pumlani Veto | South Africa | Xhosa / English | Not yet publicly available. Subject: Mdantsane, the Eastern Cape township known as a major source of South African boxing talent. | Development | NFVF PESP | DFM Access 4th edition selection, August 19, 2025 ↗ | ||
| Mehal Sefari | Abraham Gezahagne | Tamara Mariam Dawit | Ethiopia Canada Germany Norway Netherlands | Amharic | Post-Production | Development | TorinoFilmLab; DW Akademie; Sørfond 2025 (650,000 NOK) | DFM / TorinoFilmLab / DW Akademie — Gobez Media | ||
Minu ya Lumumba Feature | Kadima Ngulungu | Ngulungu | Democratic Republic of Congo | January 1961, secessionist Katanga, DRC. Belgian officer Gérard Soete executes Patrice Lumumba and is ordered to dispose of the body. Decades later, the questions surrounding Lumumba's remains and Belgium's role haunt his descendants and the historical record. | Post-Production | Cinando (March 2026) ↗ | ||||
Mirkouri Feature — Fiction | Ish Ait-Hamou, Monir Ait-Hamou | Jacques-Henri Bronckart & Nathan Duboutay (Versus Production); Xavier Rombaut (Polar Bear); Frantz Richard & Hicham El Ghorfi (Lions Films) | Belgium Morocco | Darija / French | In southern Morocco, a young boy named Hamza discovers Freddie Mercury on a magazine cover — and his life changes. | Development | Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF) | Polar Bear official project page ↗ | ||
Money Town TV Series — Fiction | Tony Koros | Toni Kamau | Kenya | English/Swahili | Not yet publicly available. | Development | Red Sea Souk, Red Sea Lodge | Red Sea Souk 2025 Series Award, December 10, 2025 | ||
Moonblind Feature | Yousry Nasrallah | Ayman El Amir / Felucca Films | Egypt | Twelve-year-old Nour flees Cairo after stabbing her sexually abusive father. Finding refuge on a Nile island, she must rebuild her identity and find a way to survive. | Development | CNC / La Fabrique Cinéma de l'Institut français | La Fabrique Cinéma 2023 — Institut français official announcement ↗ | |||
Mother Street Feature Documentary | El Amine Benhachem | Morocco France Qatar | Homeless Moroccan children flee the streets of Casablanca for the Goutte d'Or slum in Paris, hoping to find a better life. | Production | Doha Film Institute (DFI) | Qumra 2026 selection ↗ | ||||
Mountain Hunters Feature | On Set Images | South Africa | A story of survival and the struggle for independence of the Griqua people — descendants of the indigenous Khoikhoi and San populations of southern Africa — as they resist colonial dispossession. | Development | Cinando (March 2026) ↗ | |||||
Mrs Plum Feature | Nomakhomaz Dewavrin | South Africa | South Africa, 1959. Nineteen-year-old Khetiwe arrives in the Durban suburbs to work as a domestic worker. She enters the household of the liberal Plum family — whose progressive ideals are tested against the daily machinery of apartheid. Adapted from Eskia Mphahlele. | Post-Production | Moviehouse Entertainment | Cinando (March 2026) ↗ | ||||
Mulâtresse Solitude Feature | Baloji | Les Films Fauves; Srab Films; Wrong Men North | Congo (DRC) Belgium France Luxembourg Netherlands | Development | Film Fund Luxembourg (€1,060,000) | CNC Aide aux Cinémas du Monde — Oct/Nov 2025 commission (avant réalisation). Prod: Srab Films (France). ↗ | ||||
Mute on Set Feature Documentary | Kenza Derkaoui | Stefan Supplice (Niya Productions) | Morocco | Moroccan cinema pioneer Mostafa Derkaoui returns after two decades to complete his unfinished film, while his granddaughter documents his artistic revival — an exploration of how cinema bridges past and present. | Development | Telefilm Canada | Fondation Tamayouz Cinema TAP03 selection, March 2026 | |||
Mwadia Feature Narrative | Inadelso Cossa | Mozambique | A surrealistic, magical realist fable in which a woman journeys to save her husband, reflecting on Mozambique's colonial past and its present trauma. | Development | HBF+Europe / Hubert Bals Fund (IFFR), Berlinale World Cinema Fund (WCF) | HBF Development Support 2025 (July 2025) ↗ | ||||
Na rota do carvão Documentary Short | José Maria Matlombe | Mozambique | Not yet available. Project announced March 18, 2026; production begins May 1, 2026. | Pre-Production | CPLP Audiovisual Programme (PAV III) | Tela Viva / CPLP announcement, March 18, 2026 ↗ | ||||
Naître fille Feature | Kakana Traoré | Burkina Faso | Mooré, French | Post-Production | Fonds Image de la Francophonie (OIF / FIF) | Fonds Image de la Francophonie Documentary-Series Commission, April 2024. €80,000 production (with ACP-EU bonus). Burkinabè documentary. ↗ | ||||
Nomvula (She Who Brings the Rain) Feature — Fiction | Sibusiso Khuzwayo | Kethiwe Ngcobo | South Africa | Zulu / English | A Zulu rain goddess returns in human form to reclaim a lost love, threatening the world's balance in the process. | Development | TFL Next IEFTA Award — Durban FilmMart 2025; MTN Group Digital Award — US$5,000 | DFM Pitch and Finance Forum 2025 | ||
Nothing Remains the Same Series | Zuko Nodada | Zwangendaba Holdings PTY | South Africa USA | Sam Ndlovu accidentally uncovers a drug syndicate involving his boss and a prominent business figure, sending his life into freefall. | Pre-Production | Cinando (March 2026) ↗ | ||||
Noura Feature Narrative | Abdou Kadhir Ndiaye | Sokhna Aissatou Camara / Yennenga Production (Senegal) | Senegal | Financing | Fonds pour la Jeune Création Francophone (JCF) | JCF 6th session (Oct 2023) production grant €80,000 — largest award that session. ↗ | ||||
Nzonzing Feature | Moimi Wezam | Democratic Republic of Congo | Lingala, French | Post-Production | Fonds Image de la Francophonie (OIF / FIF), FESPACO — Leyth Production Prize | FESPACO 2025 — won Leyth Production Prize. Fonds Image de la Francophonie May 2025 Documentary-Series session — in the waiting list for a finishing grant (could receive if surplus available). DRC documentary. ↗ | ||||
Nós somos assim Fiction Short | Emilio Isaac Pinho Lucombo | Angola | Not yet available. Project announced March 18, 2026; production begins May 1, 2026. | Pre-Production | CPLP Audiovisual Programme (PAV III) | Tela Viva / CPLP announcement, March 18, 2026 ↗ | ||||
O julgamento das coisas não vistas Feature Fiction | Jared Oscar José de Oliveira Nota | Mozambique | Not yet available. Project announced March 18, 2026; production begins May 1, 2026. | Pre-Production | CPLP Audiovisual Programme (PAV III) | Tela Viva / CPLP announcement, March 18, 2026 ↗ | ||||
O menino e o alfinete Fiction Short | Simão Jones Pedro | Angola | Not yet available. Project announced March 18, 2026; production begins May 1, 2026. | Pre-Production | CPLP Audiovisual Programme (PAV III) | Tela Viva / CPLP announcement, March 18, 2026 ↗ | ||||
O país que me habita Feature Documentary | Olavo de Jesus Delgado da Luz | Cape Verde | Not yet available. Project announced March 18, 2026; production begins May 1, 2026. | Pre-Production | CPLP Audiovisual Programme (PAV III) | Tela Viva / CPLP announcement, March 18, 2026 ↗ | ||||
O pão do tempo (El pan del tiempo) Fiction Short | Victor Venancio Nkulu Esono Obono | Equatorial Guinea | Not yet available. Project announced March 18, 2026; production begins May 1, 2026. | Pre-Production | CPLP Audiovisual Programme (PAV III) | Tela Viva / CPLP announcement, March 18, 2026 ↗ | ||||
Of Debt and Money Feature | Houssem Sansa | Tunisia | Arabic | Development | Cairo Film Connection 10th edition, November 2024. Fiction feature in development. ↗ | |||||
Out of School Feature — Documentary | Hind Bensari | Morocco Denmark | Arabic / French | Documentary from the director of We Could Be Heroes (Hot Docs Best Documentary 2018), exploring young people navigating life outside formal education in Morocco. | Post-Production | Final Cut in Venice (La Biennale di Venezia), Red Sea Film Fund | Venice Production Bridge / Final Cut in Venice 2025 ↗ | |||
Pale Faces Feature — Fiction | Chantel Clark | Cait Pansegrouw; Frank Hoeve (Baldr Film) | South Africa Netherlands | Afrikaans / English / Dutch | Set in the late 18th-century Dutch Cape Colony: the brilliant, rebellious daughter of an exiled Imam is enlisted by a freed slave to teach a mysterious Dutch officer's children. At his remote estate, the dark secrets underpinning colonial power begin to unravel. | Financing | Sundance Institute, Doha Film Institute (DFI), Netherlands Film Fund, NFVF — National Film and Video Foundation, HBF+Europe / Hubert Bals Fund (IFFR) | IFFR CineMart 2026 / Chantel Clark filmmaker website ↗ | ||
People of Solitude Feature Narrative | Tariq Teguia | Algeria France Qatar | Amjad, the smuggler; Artemis, the paleoanthropologist; and Faune, tasked with releasing a hostage, go to the Sahara, where good and bad geniuses meet. | Post-Production | Doha Film Institute (DFI) | Qumra 2026 selection ↗ | ||||
Pepo Kali Feature Narrative alt: Strong Wind | Lydia Matata | Kenya | Swahili / English | A woman in her sixties takes up motorcycle riding lessons after the death of her daughter — a biker who died in a riding accident. | Financing | Red Sea Souk | Red Sea Souk 2024 — Red Sea Labs Production Award $50,000 ↗ | |||
Plastic Atlantis Feature Documentary | Samira Vera-Cruz | Pedro Soulé | Cape Verde South Africa Senegal Brazil Germany | Portuguese / French / English | Narrated by the director, the film dives into the Atlantic Ocean to trace the currents that simultaneously carry plastic pollution and the memory of the transatlantic slave trade — connecting Cape Verde, Senegal, and Brazil through shared histories of extraction, exploitation, and ecological burden. | Development | Berlinale World Cinema Fund (WCF), Sundance Institute, Fonds Image de la Francophonie (OIF / FIF), The Whickers Film & TV Funding Award, DOC-A Award, Women Make Movies, Climate Story Labs, Takalani Mulaudzi Development Grant (NEWF) | WCF 42nd jury session / TUI Care Foundation Award (October 2025) ↗ | ||
Premier né Feature | Machérie Ekwa Bahango | Democratic Republic of Congo | Lingala, French | Development | Fonds Image de la Francophonie (OIF / FIF) | Fonds Image de la Francophonie Commission Cinema/Fiction, September 2023. €80,000 production grant (highest tier, with ACP-EU bonus). Machérie Ekwa Bahango's third feature, after Maki'la (Berlinale 2018) and Sema (2020). ↗ | ||||
Price of Evil Feature — Fiction | Ibrahim Mursal | Jonas Bruun / Vitri Pictures | Sudan Norway | Arabic | Not yet publicly available. | Development | Red Sea Souk Development Award — US$25,000, 10 December 2025 | Red Sea Souk 2025 Development Awards, December 10, 2025 | ||
Princesse Téné Feature | Fabien Dao | Burkina Faso | French | Development | Atlas Workshops 2024, Development section. Fabien Dao's debut feature. ↗ | |||||
Pure Madness Feature | Inès Arsi | Tunisia | Arabic | Development | Atlas Workshops 2024, Development section. Inès Arsi's debut documentary feature. ↗ | |||||
Raices Feature Fiction | Esmeralda Andeme Alogo | Equatorial Guinea | Not yet available. Project announced March 18, 2026; production begins May 1, 2026. | Pre-Production | CPLP Audiovisual Programme (PAV III) | Tela Viva / CPLP announcement, March 18, 2026 ↗ | ||||
Rain Animals Feature | Tassyn Fynn | Pretty Neat | South Africa | Development | NFVF / Netherlands Film Fund — Thuthuka Co-Development Fund | NFVF FY 2023/24 Annual Report, Table 22: Thuthuka co-development grant R792,700 to Pretty Neat (Tassyn Fynn). ↗ | ||||
Renaissance Feature | Andrey S. Diarra | Mali | Development | CNC / La Fabrique Cinéma de l'Institut français | Cinando (March 2026) ↗ | |||||
Rheinland Feature — Fiction | Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese | Lesotho Germany | Sesotho / German | Against a backdrop of growing hostility, 12-year-old Afro-German Joachim navigates his identity while his parents struggle to provide a normal childhood during national-socialist rule. | Development | Mokoari Street Productions development | ||||
Road-Trip Feature | Linda Qibaa | Linda Qibaa / RUYBA Films, SaNoSi Productions | Morocco France | Arabic, French | Development | Doha Film Institute (DFI), FIDADOC | Realness CPI Cohort 5 (2025-2026). Screen Daily, December 2025. ↗ | |||
Samaa Gafa (Dry Sky) Feature Documentary | Ibrahim Omar | SudanEgypt | Arabic | A filmmaker returns to his Sudanese village to pursue a lifelong dream, confronting personal and national history. | Development | DFM Pitch and Finance Forum 2025 | ||||
Shehrazade's Birds Feature — Animation | Sofia El Khyari | Morocco | Arabic / Darija | During the French protectorate, a young woman uses drawing as escape and falls in love with a nationalist at Shehrazade Cinema as they dream of independence. | Development | Montpellier Cinemed Meetings 2024 | ||||
Side Effects TV Series — Fiction | Hind Metwalli | Egypt | Arabic | Not yet publicly available. | Development | Red Sea Souk | Red Sea Souk 2025 Series Award, December 10, 2025 | |||
Siméon Idriss Feature | Zineb Wakrim | Morocco | Arabic, Darija | Development | Atlas Workshops 2025, Development section. Zineb Wakrim's debut fiction feature. Wakrim's short Ayyur was selected for La Cinef at Cannes 2023. ↗ | |||||
Sivana Feature | Nabih Day | Nabih Day / B. Gueniot | Madagascar | Malagasy | Post-Production | Fonds Image de la Francophonie (OIF / FIF) | FIF Cinema/Fiction Commission: development Sept 2022, production April 2024. Nabih Day's debut fiction feature. Set in Madagascar. ↗ | |||
Skunk Feature — Fiction | Amanda Lane | Thuso Mbedu, Vee Mpakanyiswa, Megan Kruger | South Africa | English | Two fashion models mastermind a heist of stolen government gold to buy back ancestral land. | Development | Next Narrative Africa Fund (NNAF) | NNAF inaugural slate announcement, March 12, 2026 ↗ | ||
Solo Feature Documentary | Amine Boukhris | Tunisia France | Arabic / French | Not yet publicly available. | Development | Sunny Side of the Doc 2024 | ||||
Songs From the City of the Dead Feature | Abdelwahab Shawky | Egypt | Arabic | Development | AFAC — Arab Fund for Arts and Culture | AFAC Cinema 2025 grantee. Egyptian feature. Announced Dec 12, 2025. ↗ | ||||
Souad and Lamine Feature Documentary | Mohamed Ali Nahdi | Tunisia Qatar | As Alzheimer's erases his mother, a filmmaker explores his parents' fierce love, where art, memory, and survival intertwine. | Production | Doha Film Institute (DFI) | Qumra 2026 selection ↗ | ||||
Space Maasai Feature — Fiction | Priscilla Marealle | Tanzania | Swahili / Maa | A Maasai boy dreams of becoming an astronaut in this tale of ambition and imagination in rural Tanzania. | Development | DFM Pitch and Finance Forum 2025 | ||||
Spaceman in Kongo Feature Documentary | Maisha Maene | Leo Nelki / Leo Nelki Productions (UK) | Democratic Republic of Congo United Kingdom | Two young rocket engineers, Nestor and Isaac, work to build the first Congolese space program, propelled by the memory of African dreamers and an enduring belief in their country. | Post-Production | IDFA Bertha Fund (IBF), Visions Sud Est — Swiss Film Fund | IDFA Bertha Fund IBF Classic Fall 2024 selection (Production & Post-production). Co-production DRC/UK. ↗ | |||
Speak Feature Narrative | Nejib Kthiri | Tunisia France Italy Qatar | A Black Tunisian boy strives to reclaim his voice in a society which would deny him one. | Development | Sundance Institute Documentary Fund | Qumra 2026 selection ↗. Venice Gap-Financing Market 2026 — Venice Production Bridge, 4–6 September 2026 | ||||
Stallions Feature Documentary | Rita Baghdadi | Rita Baghdadi, Sahar Yousefi | Morocco United States | Arabic / Tamazight | A crew of stallion riders make dreams come true on the coast of Morocco. | Financing | Sundance Institute Documentary Fund | Sundance Institute Documentary Fund 2024 grantees (August 2024) ↗. Venice Gap-Financing Market 2026 — Venice Production Bridge, 4–6 September 2026 | ||
Station 243 Feature — Fiction | Nganji Mutiri | Democratic Republic of Congo | French / Lingala | As a dictatorial regime faces its final hours, young stylist Toya must decide between saving the first lady — her employer — or pursuing the assassin of her twin sister. | Development | Belgium CCA — Centre du Cinéma et de l'Audiovisuel | Belgium CCA Cinema Commission 2024 | |||
STERO Feature — Fiction | Millan Tarus & Tevin Kimathi | Kenya | Swahili / English | A bullied Kenyan schoolboy channels Bruce Lee in this martial-arts-inspired rebellion against a colonial-era punishment. | Development | DFM Pitch and Finance Forum 2025 | ||||
Stéréoman Feature Documentary | Twana Sheriya | Giresse Kassonga / Gikas Films (DRC) | Democratic Republic of Congo | Production | Fonds pour la Jeune Création Francophone (JCF) | JCF 7th session (Dec 2024) production grant €40,000. Dir: Twana Sheriya (DRC). Prod: Gikas Films. ↗ | ||||
Sunbirds Feature — Fiction | Yared Zeleke | Mehret Mandefro | Ethiopia | Amharic | Part road-trip, part thriller — two sisters flee rural poverty and head to the city, exploring global inequality, patriarchy, and exploitation. | Development | Sundance Institute, Rockefeller Foundation; Realness African Screenwriters' Residency 2020 | Sundance Institute mentorship / Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship | ||
Sunny Feature — Animation | Delphine Cousin | DRC Belgium | French / Lingala | Sunny is biracial — the daughter of a Belgian colonist and a Congolese woman. At independence, she is sent away; as a teenager she returns to Congo to trace her father's steps and uncovers his dark secrets. | Development | Belgium CCA — Centre du Cinéma et de l'Audiovisuel | Belgium CCA Cinema Commission 2024 | |||
Tarfaya Feature — Fiction | Sofia Alaoui | Christophe Barral (SRAB Films) | Morocco France Belgium Qatar | Arabic / French | In a remote coastal Moroccan town buffeted by extreme weather, a mysterious sleeping epidemic draws inhabitants into a deep sleep from which no one wakes. A doctor fights to understand the disease and save her community — including the young foreign doctor she has fallen in love with. | Financing | Doha Film Institute (DFI), Venice Gap-Financing Market | Variety / Doha Film Institute Fall 2024 grantees ↗ | ||
Tata nkentu isuamu Fiction Short | Óscar Gil Rodolfo do Amaral Pereira | Angola | Not yet available. Project announced March 18, 2026; production begins May 1, 2026. | Pre-Production | CPLP Audiovisual Programme (PAV III) | Tela Viva / CPLP announcement, March 18, 2026 ↗ | ||||
Tears Feature Narrative | Moise Ganza | Rwanda | not yet available | Development | HBF+Europe / Hubert Bals Fund (IFFR) | HBF Development Support 2025 (July 2025) ↗ | ||||
Tentogether Feature Narrative | Doha Moustaquim | Rajae Faloss | Morocco | Development | Fondation Tamayouz Cinema TAP03 selection, March 2026 | |||||
The Black Pearl Feature — Fiction | Ayoub Qanir | Hypothèse (Morocco) | Morocco | Arabic / Darija | Fiction feature. Full synopsis not yet public. | Financing | Venice Gap-Financing Market | Venice Production Bridge / Venice Gap-Financing Market 2025 ↗ | ||
The Cow Thief Feature Documentary | Mohamed Zedan | Egypt | Arabic | Not yet publicly available. | Development | CineGouna / El Gouna Film Festival | CineGouna Platform 2024 | |||
The Devil Inside TV Series — Fiction | Mandla Dube & Willem Grobler | South Africa | English / Zulu | A detective solving murders and child abductions in a small town — a limited series that dives into the psychology of contemporary South Africa. | Development | Black Mic Mac co-productions 2024 | ||||
The Flowers of the Dead Feature | Nuno Boaventura Miranda | Cape Verde | In Praia, Cape Verde, Tempu is an introverted undertaker mourning his father while resisting family pressure to sell the ancestral home and leave the island. His life intersects with Mónica, a Cape Verdean singer visiting to bury an estranged father she never knew. After a charged family gathering, unexpected intimacy follows. Tempu invites Mónica on a journey through the island before his departure, through Passover celebrations and a visit to his ailing mother. As Mónica confronts her alienation, Tempu reveals his family's tragic past — and makes peace before leaving. | Development | CNC / La Fabrique Cinéma de l'Institut français | Atlas Workshops 2024, Marrakech IFF. Institut français Fabrique des Cinémas du Monde grant. Ioncinema interview (2024). ↗ | ||||
The Fortunate Feature — Fiction | Habtamu Gebrehiwot | Nahusenay Dereje (MTF Multimedia, Ethiopia) | Ethiopia | Amharic | A dark comedy. A Baptist pastor from southern Ethiopia who lives between two worlds. | Financing | Locarno Open Doors 2025 official selection; Screen Daily profile July 2025 ↗ | |||
The Great Transporter TV Series — Fiction | Alassane Sy & Latigone N'Goma | Senegal Côte d'Ivoire | French / Wolof | A young man with the mystical power of water uses his swimming skills to serve a drug kingpin in Dakar — one of West Africa's biggest cocaine trafficking hubs. | Development | Black Mic Mac co-productions 2024 | ||||
The God of Odds Feature — Fiction | Kobby Boateng | ASAP Studio (Ghana); 9 Nights (Switzerland), Mortinno Morton | Ghana Switzerland | Atiemo, a young Ghanaian man chasing fast riches in high-stakes betting, collides with ancient West African mythology. As his luck turns, the line between faith, fortune, and spiritual debt blurs. A look at gambling addiction among Ghanaian youth and the cost of an economy built on chance. | Post-Production | What Kept Me Up (Eva Anya) — exclusive, June 2026. Self-financed by ASAP Studio (Kobby Boateng), additional private financing from Swiss co-producer 9 Nights (Blake Simpson); no institutional funders named. ↗ | ||||
The Guardian Feature Narrative | Muhannad Lamin | Lynda Belkhiria | Libya Algeria Canada France Qatar | Two brothers search a remote Libyan wadi for the elusive waddan, a wild mountain sheep; their only hope is a shepherd who refuses to lead them. | Production | Doha Film Institute (DFI), Visions Sud Est — Swiss Film Fund | Qumra 2026 selection ↗ | |||
The Joyful 1926 Feature — Fiction | Damien Ounouri & Adila Bendimerad | Algeria France Qatar | Arabic / French | Set in 1926 Algiers: Ghazala battles French colonial justice to pursue her acting career and secure a better future for her daughter. | Development | Doha Film Institute (DFI) | DFI Qumra 2025 (April 2025) | |||
The Killing of a Beast Feature | Naledi Bogacwi | Naledi Bogacwi / Trial by Media Films | South Africa | Production | NFVF — National Film and Video Foundation | NFVF FY 2023/24 Annual Report, Table 13: Production Feature, R1,800,000 to The Killing of a Beast (Pty) Ltd SPV / Trial by Media Films. ↗ | ||||
The Last Tears of the Deceased Feature Narrative | Beza Hailu Lemma | Tamara Dawit / Gobez Media (Canada) | Ethiopia Canada Germany France | Amharic | A newly ordained priest sets out on a dreamlike journey across Ethiopia to uncover the truth about his own childhood death. | Financing | HBF+Europe / Hubert Bals Fund (IFFR), CNC / Aide aux Cinémas du Monde (ACM), Red Sea Film Fund, Cannes Critics' Week, Sundance Institute, Cannes L'Atelier | HBF+Europe 2025 (announced March 2026) — Culture Custodian ↗ | ||
The Lost City of Atlantis Feature | Samir Benyala | Algeria | Arabic, French | Development | AFAC — Arab Fund for Arts and Culture | AFAC Cinema 2025 grantee. Algerian feature. Announced Dec 12, 2025. ↗ | ||||
The Masters of Magic and Beauty Feature — Fiction | Jad Chahine | Egypt | Arabic | Not yet publicly available. | Development | CineGouna / El Gouna Film Festival | CineGouna Platform 2024 | |||
The Missing Camel Feature — Documentary | Cheikh N'Diaye | Abel Aflam (Morocco) | Morocco Senegal Mali | Arabic / French / Wolof | Documentary. Full synopsis not yet public. | Financing | Venice Gap-Financing Market | Venice Production Bridge / Venice Gap-Financing Market 2025 ↗ | ||
The Missing Planet Feature Narrative | Marouan Omara, Tom Rosenberg | Egypt Germany Italy Poland Qatar | A paramedic searches Cairo for his missing wife, guided by dreams sent from the future by his grieving daughter. | Development | Doha Film Institute (DFI) | Qumra 2026 selection ↗ | ||||
The Passion of Aline Feature | Rokhaya Marieme Balde | Senegal | Wolof, French | A portrait of Aline Sitoé Diatta, a Senegalese hero of women's opposition to French colonial occupation. A young woman leading a resistance movement against colonial rule — inscribed in the oral tradition of Senegalese history and women's political memory. | Development | Atlas Workshops / Marrakech IFF | Atlas Workshops 2023, Development section — won a development prize. Also selected for Locarno Alliance4Development. Variety (November 2023) names Rokhaya Marieme Balde as a Locarno Industry Talent of the Year. ↗ | |||
The Return Feature — Fiction | Zoey Martinson | Kofi Owusu Afriyie | Ghana USA | English | During a weekend getaway in Ghana, seven Gen Z friends accidentally disrespect an ancient deity in their beachfront Airbnb. A celebration of culture turns into a desperate struggle for survival. | Development | Next Narrative Africa Fund (NNAF) | NNAF inaugural slate announcement, March 12, 2026 ↗ | ||
The Salt of the South Feature Documentary | Rami Jarboui | Tunisia | Arabic | A mother continues her sea-farming tradition while her son migrates to Europe — a story of climate change, inheritance, and survival. | Development | AFAC — Arab Fund for Arts and Culture | DFM Pitch and Finance Forum 2025 | |||
The Sea Was Once Blue Feature — Fiction | Mohamad El-Hadidi | Egypt Germany | Arabic | Not yet publicly available. | Development | EFM 2026 market screening | ||||
The Second Coming TV Series — Fiction | Michael James | South Africa | English | When a man believed to be the new messiah gains a following, politics and faith spiral into chaos in Johannesburg. | Development | DFM Pitch and Finance Forum 2025 | ||||
The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives Feature | Daniel Oriahi | Mo Abudu / EbonyLife Films | Nigeria | English | Baba Segi, a wealthy but unlettered Ibadan patriarch, rules his polygamous compound with four wives and seven children. When he takes a fifth wife — the university-educated Bolanle — her arrival fractures the fragile order, triggering rivalries and slowly exposing the buried secrets his older wives have protected for years. Based on Lola Shoneyin's 2010 novel. | Production | Announced Deadline January 2026. Dir: Daniel Oriahi. Screenplay: Adze Ugah. Produced by EbonyLife in partnership with Genesis Group, Nile Media Entertainment, Silverbird Group. Cast: Odunlade Adekola, Iyabo Ojo, Mercy Aigbe, Bimbo Ademoye, Omowunmi Dada. Targeting December 2026 theatrical release. ↗ | |||
The Source Feature | Mouloud Ouyahia | Algeria | Arabic | A debut feature following up Ouyahia's Cannes 2023 Directors' Fortnight short The House Is On Fire, Might As Well Get Warm. Details of the feature not yet publicly available. | Development | Atlas Workshops 2024, Development section. Mouloud Ouyahia's debut feature after Cannes 2023 Directors' Fortnight short. ↗ | ||||
The Three Rascals Feature — Fiction | Ishaya Bako | Nigeria Burkina Faso | English / French | A Nigerian adaptation of the Burkinabé comedy 'Les Trois Lascars' — three married men whose secret holiday plans go spectacularly wrong. | Development | Black Mic Mac co-productions 2024 | ||||
The Time of Wandering Feature — Fiction | Mohamed Siam | Martin Jauvat / Godolphin Films | Egypt | Arabic | Details not publicly available. | Development | La Fabrique Cinéma de l'Institut français | La Fabrique Cinéma 2025 selection; Institut français official announcement ↗ | ||
The Whalers Feature Documentary | PJ Marcellino & Jerri Thrasher | Pedro Soulé | Cape Verde Canada France | Portuguese / English / French | For centuries, whaling ships were crewed largely by free Black, Indigenous, and Afro-Indigenous men — despite the slave trade and rampant discrimination. This is their story. | Development | Marché du Film / IEFTA curation | |||
The Woman Sitting in the Corridor Feature — Fiction | Lotfi Achour | Tunisia France | Arabic / French | A 19-year-old woman discovers her father was tortured to death during the Ben Ali dictatorship, leading her to Tunis to uncover family truths. | Development | Montpellier Cinemed Meetings 2024 | ||||
Third Wheel Feature — Fiction | Zoe Ramushu | Reabetswe Moeti-Vogt (Totem Zea, South Africa); Ellen Havenith (PRPL, Netherlands) | South Africa Netherlands | isiZulu / English | People-pleaser Thina, adopted by a white family, must confront the ghosts of her traumatic past at a pre-wedding retreat that spirals into paranoia, deadly secrets, and disappearances. | Financing | NFVF — National Film and Video Foundation, Netherlands Film Fund (NFF) | Netherlands Film Fund / Cannes 2024 announcement ↗ | ||
Three Weeks Feature — Fiction | Susie Wokoma | Nigeria UK | English | A woman is dumped by her boyfriend and rebounds into a new relationship, only to discover she is pregnant by her ex. Described as an 'abortion rom-com'. | Pre-Production | Independent development | ||||
Till Death Do Us Part TV Series — Fiction | Tomi Folowosele | Orire Nwani | Nigeria | English | A grieving woman defies an ancient rule to see her dead husband one last time, tearing open the veil between life and death and awakening something that has come to collect what is owed. | Development | Biennale College Cinema (La Biennale di Venezia) | Biennale College Cinema 2025–26 (La Biennale di Venezia); Venice Gap-Financing Market 2026 — Biennale College Cinema / Venice Production Bridge, 4–6 September 2026 | ||
Tithes & Offering Feature — Fiction | Tony Koros | Toni Kamau; Louise Kamwangi; We Are Not the Machine Ltd. | Kenya | English / Kiswahili | A comedy set in Kenya developed from the director's 2019 short of the same name, which screened at Clermont-Ferrand and Palm Springs. Produced under We Are Not the Machine, the Kenyan production house behind Softie and I Am Samuel. | Development | Biennale College Cinema (La Biennale di Venezia) | Biennale College Cinema 2025–26 (La Biennale di Venezia); Venice Gap-Financing Market 2026 — Biennale College Cinema / Venice Production Bridge, 4–6 September 2026 ↗ | ||
To Catch a Falling Sky Feature Narrative | Cheta Chukwu | Sheila Nortley | Nigeria United Kingdom | Yoruba / English | In 1966 Nigeria, as civil war erupts, a brilliant but childless woman must confront her husband's choice to bring home a second wife — forcing her to choose between resentment and an unthinkable alliance as their country collapses around them. | Development | Red Sea Souk | Red Sea Souk 2025 Projects in Development — British Blacklist, December 2025 ↗ | ||
Traduttore, Traditore Feature Documentary | Salomé El Joumri | Réda Zerouali | Morocco | Development | Fondation Tamayouz Cinema TAP03 selection, March 2026 | |||||
Tribe Feature — Animation | Tendayi Nyeke | South Africa | Zulu / English | In a world where only women possess magic, a mother fights to protect her daughter and restore balance after being stripped of her powers. | Development | DFM Pitch and Finance Forum 2025 | ||||
Trip in Memory Feature | Moktar Ladjimi | Tunisia | Post-Production | Cinando (March 2026) ↗ | ||||||
TWO Feature | Nana Kofi Asihene | Nana Kofi Asihene, Aphua Larbi-Amoah, Isaac 'Yaw Skyface' Mensah, John 'Kwame Black' Markin (Bravado Films / LLP Studio / Apstairs Media / MW Media Ltd) | Ghana | English | Marcus has retired from crime after deliberately botching a job, and now lives as a devoted church member and new husband to Elara. When his former mentor Vic returns, Marcus must choose between protecting the life he's built and settling the debts of his past. | Post-Production | GhMovieFreak / Broadcast Media Africa — principal photography December 2025; Netflix 2026 African slate confirmation (January 2026) ↗ | |||
Un/Settled Feature Documentary | Sydelle Willow Smith | South Africa | English | A personal documentary confronting white privilege in post-apartheid South Africa through candid conversations and uncomfortable truths. | Development | DFM Pitch and Finance Forum 2025 | ||||
United States of Africa TV Series — Fiction | Carl Kwesi Earl-Ocran, Yule Caise | Ghana USA | English | Ghana, 1958. When the CIA, KGB, and MI6 turn the newly independent nation of Ghana into a Cold War proxy battlefield, a former Ghanaian soldier is tasked with forming the first African spy agency. | Development | Next Narrative Africa Fund (NNAF) | NNAF inaugural slate announcement, March 12, 2026 ↗ | |||
Until the Dawn Feature | Mohamed Zineddaine | Janaprod | Morocco | In 1970s Kénitra, sixteen-year-old Hamid moves between the town's impoverished outskirts and its bustling port district, his adolescence becoming entangled with larger social forces shaping Morocco. | Post-Production | Cinando (March 2026) ↗ | ||||
Untitled (Joël Akafou project) Feature — Fiction | Joël Akafou | Laurent Bitty (Les Films du Continent) | Côte d'Ivoire | French / Dioula | Details not publicly available. Project from Ivorian director Joël Akafou, whose debut documentary Watching (2017) screened internationally. | Financing | CNC / La Fabrique Cinéma de l'Institut français | La Fabrique Cinéma 2024 selection; Institut français official announcement ↗ | ||
Untitled Sierra Leone Political Thriller Feature — Fiction | Rapman | Rapman, Mouktar Mohamed, Victor Mukete | Sierra Leone UK | English | A quiet 25-year-old Sierra Leonean soldier is thrust into power after a bloodless coup, only to find that ruling a country is far more dangerous than taking it. | Development | Next Narrative Africa Fund (NNAF) | NNAF inaugural slate announcement, March 12, 2026 ↗ | ||
Vagabonds Feature — Fiction | Amartei Armar | Sebastien Hussenot, Yemoh Ike | Ghana France | Twi / Pidgin | Two orphaned brothers threatened with separation flee to Accra in search of freedom and a family to call their own. | Post-Production | Red Sea Souk | Red Sea Souk 2022 — $100,000 production award | ||
Vanda Feature | Kamy Lara | Angola | Portuguese | Post-Production | Atlas Workshops 2025, Films Shooting or Post-Production section. Kamy Lara's debut fiction feature. ↗ | |||||
Victoria Falls Feature — Fiction | Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese | Vanessa Ford | Zambia | English / Bemba | Home for her sister's wedding, Victoria is confronted with her dysfunctional mixed-race family. When her father throws her brother in prison, she must accompany him on a journey north. | Development | Cannes L'Atelier selection | |||
VigilAunties TV Series — Fiction | Loren Loubser | South Africa | English / Afrikaans | A group of middle-aged women turn vigilante to protect their Cape Flats neighborhood, blending humor and grassroots justice. | Development | DFM Pitch and Finance Forum 2025 | ||||
Vuka Feature Documentary | Matthew Robinson | South Africa | English / Zulu / Xhosa | A new generation of South African activists demand justice and change, from climate to corruption. | Development | DFM Pitch and Finance Forum 2025 | ||||
Walinzi Feature | Twana Sheriya | Emmanuel Lupia / Tosala Films (DRC) | Democratic Republic of Congo | French, Lingala | Inspired by the fall of Mobutu's 32-year reign in Zaire (now DRC). Kuwa Jibika has just been fired but doesn't dare tell his partner Nella, pretending every morning to leave for work at 'the Lebanese.' Seen from the perspective of one of Mobutu's bodyguards who remained loyal until the bitter end — a story of courage, loyalty, love and forgiveness at the intersection of the DRC's traumatic political history and the beginning of the predatory strategies that led to decades of war and displacement. | Post-Production | Red Sea Film Fund | Red Sea Fund 2023 Cycle 2 production grantee. FESPACO 2025 Perspective section. Director Sheriya Twana also directed Nails Man (2023), which won the Idrissa Ouedraogo Prize at FESPACO 2025. ↗ | ||
Waslap Feature — Fiction | Batandwa Alperstein | Batandwa Alperstein | South Africa | Not yet publicly available. | Development | DFM Access 4th edition selection, August 19, 2025 ↗ | ||||
When I Close My Eyes, I See Your Eyes Feature Narrative | Sameh Alaa | Egypt KSA Qatar | A woman's life unravels after her husband dies suddenly in Cairo; transporting his body home, she finds her inner self. | Development | Doha Film Institute (DFI) | Qumra 2026 selection ↗ | ||||
When Time Dissolves Into Silence Feature Documentary | Faïçal Benaghrou | Imane Lahrich | Morocco | Abd El Jalil returns to his village, shaken by globalization. Navigating between artistic projects and agricultural initiatives, he tries to protect a heritage under threat while facing mistrust and questions of identity, memory, and renewal in a community in transition. | Development | Fondation Tamayouz Cinema TAP03 selection, March 2026 | ||||
Where Do I Belong? Feature Documentary | Ibrahim Snoopy Ahmad | Sudan Qatar | Returning to a war zone to reunite with his parents, a director confronts the journeys of migration that shaped his third-culture childhood. | Development | Doha Film Institute (DFI) | Qumra 2026 selection ↗ | ||||
Where the Sun Never Sets Short Narrative | Yassine Ouahrani | Morocco France Qatar | When a person dear to him leaves the factory, a worker seeks a smuggler's services to erase their memory. | Post-Production | Atlas Workshops; Cannes Investors Circle 2026; Red Sea Souk Project Market 2022 (Projects in Development); Venice Gap-Financing Market 2026 — Venice Production Bridge, 4–6 September 2026 | |||||
Wolfmother Feature — Fiction | Ismaël El Iraki | Morocco France | French / Arabic / Berber | Amira Ouazzani — a cigarette smuggler — is the mother of inseparable brothers. When her son gets close to a cannabis drug lord, a love affair emerges between the lord's Spanish partner and Amira. | Financing | Atlas Workshops; Cannes Investors Circle 2026; Red Sea Souk Project Market 2022 (Projects in Development); Venice Gap-Financing Market 2026 — Venice Production Bridge, 4–6 September 2026 | ||||
Yaa Asantewaa TV Series — Fiction | Kara Smith & Rienkje Attoh | Rienkje Attoh | USA Ghana | English / Twi | A period fantasy series about warrior queen Yaa Asantewaa of the Ashanti empire — recounting the life of the queen who led the final war of resistance against British colonial rule in 1900. | Development | So and So Productions development | |||
Yammi Feature | Hinde Boujemaa | Tunisia | Arabic | Development | Doha Film Institute (DFI) | DFI Fall 2025 grantee. Hinde Boujemaa's third feature after It Was Better Tomorrow (2013, IDFA special jury prize) and Noura's Dream (2019, Carthage IFF Best Film). ↗ | ||||
You Don't Die Two Times Feature Documentary | Ager Oueslati | Ager Oueslati, Raouf Oueslati | Algeria France | French / Arabic / English | Gift, a Nigerian woman who left Lagos in 2017, recounts to her son the story of her perilous journey northward — through exploitation, the modern slave trade, and the sea — in search of Europe. The film traces the odysseys of African migrant women caught in cycles of trafficking between sub-Saharan Africa and the Mediterranean. | Post-Production | Berlinale World Cinema Fund (WCF), Doha Film Institute (DFI), AFAC — Arab Fund for Arts and Culture, CineGouna / El Gouna Film Festival, IDFA Bertha Fund | WCF 40th jury session (July 2024) ↗ | ||
You Shall Not Make an Image Feature Narrative | Kaouther Ben Hania | Tanit Films (France) | Tunisia France Germany Sweden Belgium | Arabic, French | Bouchra, raised in a mausoleum dedicated to the saint Sidi Sardi, finds her family home threatened when a hostile imam seeks to turn it into a mosque. Her life shifts when she meets Ahmed, a cameraman who offers to help her make a film about the saint. | Post-Production | Eurimages, Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg | The Party Film Sales | Eurimages Q3 2024 session (€430,000) ↗ | |
Zion Music Feature — Documentary | Rama Thiaw | Boul Fallé Images (Senegal) | Senegal Côte d'Ivoire Germany | French / Wolof | A documentary tracing the history of African reggae across 30 years — from Senegal, Ivory Coast and beyond. Fifteen years in the making, from the director of The Revolution Won't Be Televised (Berlinale Fipresci 2016). | Post-Production | Final Cut in Venice (La Biennale di Venezia) | Final Cut in Venice 2023 selection; FCAT 2024 bio (2025 premiere targeted) ↗ | ||
Umzingeli (The Hunter) Series — Thriller | Not yet announced | Series Mania 2026 | South Africa France | Spy thriller based on Deon Meyer novels. KGB/Stasi-trained assassin Thobela "Tiny" Mpayipheli, living under false identity in Bordeaux. Spans Bordeaux, Bilbao, Benelux, Berlin, and southern Africa. Both Worlds (SA) / Paradoxal (France) co-production. Showrunner: Noah Stollman; collaborating writer: Fred Khumalo. Deon Meyer as executive producer. | Development | Variety, March 2026 — Both Worlds / Paradoxal announcement ahead of Series Mania | ||||
Dead at Daybreak Series — Crime | Jaco Bouwer | Series Mania 2026 | South Africa France | Noir series set in Cape Town, 1996. Based on Deon Meyer's breakthrough novel, winner of French Grand Prix de Littérature Policière. Centers on former cop turned private investigator Zatopek van Heerden. Both Worlds (SA) / Paradoxal (France) co-production. Head writer: Tertius Kapp. Deon Meyer as executive producer. | Development | Variety, March 2026 — Both Worlds / Paradoxal announcement ahead of Series Mania | ||||
Identity Curls Documentary | Nadège Butoyi | Visions du Réel 2026 | Burundi | No synopsis published. VdR-Development Lab. Producers: Diane Kaneza (Mikadie Production), Jean Marie Ndihokubwayo (Clap4Creativity). Lab supported by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation. | Development | Visions du Réel 2026 Industry Program, March 2026 | ||||
Flight 7014 to Algiers Documentary | Yamina Zoutat | Visions du Réel 2026 | Switzerland France | No synopsis published. Story Lab Pitching (Migros Culture Percentage). Algeria link confirmed by title only. Director name consistent with North African origin. Monitor for synopsis and production detail. | Development | Visions du Réel 2026 Industry Program, March 2026 | ||||
Amore e Mentalità Documentary | Karim Sayad | Visions du Réel 2026 | Switzerland | No synopsis published. Prix RTS de soutien à la création documentaire. Africa link is filmmaker biography only — Sayad is Algerian-Swiss; previous work engages with Algerian experience. No project-level subject or production country confirms an Africa connection. FLAG FOR REVIEW: update or remove if synopsis does not establish African-linked subject matter. | Development | Visions du Réel 2026 Industry Program, March 2026 | ||||
Standing at the Ruins (Al Woqoof Ala El Atlal) Feature — Fiction | Saeed Taji Farouky | Tourist With A Typewriter (UK) / Rubik's Films | Egypt United Kingdom | Hala, an opera singer living in Rome, returns to Cairo to claim her mother's inheritance. The journey takes her across the city to resolve her grief and the memories of her mother in the rough fantastical backdrop of Cairo. | Post-Production | FCV 2025: 196-MEDIA sound-mixing services (€10,000) | Final Cut in Venice 2025 ↗ | |||
Aisha Qandicha Animation Feature | Fatima Mahdar | Alyssa Harden | Morocco | Development | DFM 2025 Pitch and Finance Forum (Animated Fiction Features) ↗ | |||||
Kamaroza Animation Feature | Ahmad Abdelhameed, Islam Mazhar | Nouran Abdallah | Egypt | Development | DFM 2025 Pitch and Finance Forum (Animated Fiction Features) ↗ | |||||
Kivu Documentary Feature | Elisé Sawasawa | Rayuela Productions (Belgium); Molakisi Films (DRC, Christian Bitwaiki) | Belgium / Democratic Republic of the Congo | Goma, DRC. After the volcanic eruption that swallowed his house and savings, Ally, a young actor, has to start over. In a city under constant threat from war and the Nyiragongo volcano, Ally fights to rebuild his life and project himself toward a future. | Production | CCA — Centre du Cinéma et de l’Audiovisuel (Wallonia-Brussels Federation) — Session 3 2025, €35,000, production aid (foreign initiative); Fonds Jeune Création Francophone (JCF) — 4th call 2021, development support | CCA-FWB Session 3 2025 communiqué (6 May 2026); FJCF 4th call 2021 results; JBA Production project page; Cineuropa Atlas Workshops 2025 report (5 December 2025); Berlinale 2026 Panorama | |||
Nunu Rhu / The Girl With Wings Animated Series | Clare Louis | Ameera Faber, Sabrina Roc | South Africa | Development | DFM 2025 Pitch and Finance Forum (Animated Series) ↗ | |||||
Planet Carnival Documentary Series | Kurt Orderson | Thandi Davids, Adrian Van Wyk | South Africa | Development | DFM 2025 Pitch and Finance Forum (Documentary Series) ↗ | |||||
Retour à Thiaroye (Return To Thiaroye) Documentary Series | Emilien Abibou | Dhia Jerbi, Manon Lavaud, Victor Thomas | Tunisia | Development | DFM 2025 Pitch and Finance Forum (Documentary Series) ↗ | |||||
Manjano (The Color Yellow) Feature — Fiction | Omar Hamza | June Wairegi | Kenya | A romance-action film. Rama, fresh out of high school, puts together a team of misfits to pull off a heist to fund his elopement with a girl who has been promised to someone else. | Development | Africa No Filter | Red Sea Souk 2024 ↗ | |||
Claude Feature — Fiction | Narcisse Wandji | Evodie Ngueyeli (Les Films d'Ebène) | Cameroon | Development | Berlinale Co-Production Market 2026 — Talent Project Market (Feb 14–17, 2026) ↗ | |||||
Laissées-pour-compte Feature — Fiction | Kenza Tazi | Ayoub El Jamal (A.T.A. Production / Arts et Techniques Audiovisuels) | Morocco | Four women brought together in a waiting room, all connected by the case of unwanted pregnancy, following a police raid. | Development | La Fabrique Cinéma 2026, 18th edition (Institut français, Cannes May 2026) ↗ | ||||
Family Secrets Feature — Fiction | Robert Peters | Lillian Amah-Aluko (New Dawn Productions Ltd) | Nigeria South Africa | English | A botched drug deal in Umlazi halts Simangele and Ikemefuna's wedding. Separated by fear and distance, they reunite at a Ghana fashion show when his love song shocks the crowd. As fame rises and Simangele falls pregnant, dark secrets about her father's ties to the chaos threaten them all. | Post-Production | AFRIFF Goes to Cannes 2026, Marché du Film (16 May 2026, Palais K) ↗ | |||
Insight Feature — Fiction | Hakym Reagan | Arsene Ngabo (The Movie People LTD) | Rwanda | English | Dee, a former janitor, finds solace in his job at a hospital until he meets Eveline, a woman trying to gain sight. Their bond transcends physical vision as they navigate personal struggles, love, and sacrifice in a challenging world. | Complete / Festival-Ready | AFRIFF Goes to Cannes 2026, Marché du Film (16 May 2026, Palais K) ↗ | |||
Ashawo (Prostitute) Feature — Fiction | Emil Garuba | Emil Garuba (Sutoritera Limited); Brenda Ogbukaa Garuba (Ziva Works Limited) | Nigeria | English / Pidgin | Ehi, a young drug-addicted Nigerian prostitute, investigates an underground sex-trafficking business to seek bloody revenge on the men who killed her best friend. | Post-Production | AFRIFF Goes to Cannes 2026, Marché du Film (16 May 2026, Palais K) ↗ | |||
Achalugo Feature — Fiction | Obi Emelonye | DSP Studios; Banger Studios | Nigeria | Igbo / English | Prince Ikenna returns to Achala with his Caucasian wife and mixed-race children, unsettling his traditional father, the King. When a 15th-century legend of Queen Onwa resurfaces, hidden truths link the family to the kingdom's past, challenging tradition and forcing a choice between change and heritage. | Complete / Festival-Ready | AFRIFF Goes to Cannes 2026, Marché du Film (16 May 2026, Palais K) ↗ | |||
The Boy and His King Feature — Fiction | Valencia Joshua | La Vida Studios; Film One Productions; Dream Lab Productions | South Africa Nigeria | English / Zulu | In 1987 apartheid South Africa, a curious Indian farm boy forges an unlikely bond with the Zulu King, discovering courage, purpose, and destiny. Rising to royal advisor, he faces betrayal, love, and racism — a journey that mirrors a nation on the brink of change. | Post-Production | AFRIFF Goes to Cannes 2026, Marché du Film (16 May 2026, Palais K) ↗ | |||
My Hands Are Made Stronger Fiction Short | Zakaria Nouri | 10.80 Films (Belgium) | Belgium / Morocco | Awa, 7, lives with her father Aidara, 34, and her mother Adji, 26, in a dilapidated building in a Casablanca shantytown occupied by undocumented sub-Saharan migrants. The school year approaches. Awa dreams of going to school like other children her age, but Aidara quickly discovers that beginning the administrative process means entering a bureaucratic labyrinth with no exit. | Production | CCA — Centre du Cinéma et de l’Audiovisuel (Wallonia-Brussels Federation) — Session 3 2025, €50,000, production aid | CCA-FWB Session 3 2025 communiqué (6 May 2026) | |||
Attrape-Soleil Feature — Fiction | Amina Hadji | Limited Adventures (Belgium) | Belgium | Maroua, a hotel cleaner in an isolated establishment, meets Éric, a bus driver. One evening, breaking the rules, he goes off-route to help her get home. An accident kills her. The act of solidarity becomes a fault to be punished: Éric is named guilty, Maroua’s memory dragged through the mud. But in the shadow of the public drama, those close to them keep a fragile light alive — and life goes on. | Development | CCA — Centre du Cinéma et de l’Audiovisuel (Wallonia-Brussels Federation) — Session 3 2025, €15,000, writing aid | CCA-FWB Session 3 2025 communiqué (6 May 2026) | |||
Guardians of the Equator Feature Documentary | Elisé Sawasawa | TBC | Democratic Republic of Congo | Not yet public. | Development | Thin placeholder. Single public reference: JBA Production project page for “Enough Is Enough” notes Sawasawa “is also directing two others documentaries KIVU and GUARDIANS OF THE EQUATOR.” Director also directing Kivu (AFP-E1D01DA4) and Enough Is Enough (AFP-DA83DA3B). Refresh as more information surfaces. | ||||
Le Voleur & Le Saint Feature — Fiction | Yasser El Ansari | Agora Films Morocco (Souad Lamriki); Petites Poupées Production France (Cynthia Pinet) | Morocco France | After the death of his adoptive mother Kenza, Adam (31) — a con artist living off lies and petty theft — is forced to take Zak (18), Kenza’s son with Down syndrome, to his uncle’s house on the other side of the country. On the road, their differences erupt and the journey goes off the rails. After their motorbike is stolen, they survive on small scams where Zak’s innocence proves surprisingly effective. When the uncle refuses to take Zak in, Adam faces a choice he has always avoided. | Development | PFM New Talent Strand 2025; DreamAgo Plume & Pellicule 2025; Rawi Screenwriters Lab 2025; Atlas Workshops 2025 | Morocco at Cannes 2026 PDF (CCM). Filming Morocco 2027; post in France; delivery February 2028. | |||
Remontada Feature — Fiction | Reda Lahmouid | Freemonkeyz Morocco (Julien Fouré); Objectif 9 Canada (Samuel Gagnon, Bahija Essoussi) | Morocco Canada | Casablanca, Eid al-Adha 2022. Ismaïl (13), a young football prodigy, suffers a serious accidental burn that puts both his legs and his dreams at risk. Hospitalized in a public facility, he endures pain and uncertainty while his middle-class parents fight to secure care in a largely privatized health system. In parallel, Morocco’s national team makes its historic run to the World Cup semi-finals. A social dramedy about resilience, transmission, and the ability to reinvent one’s future. | Development | TAP 02 (Fondation Tamayouz); Atlas Workshops 2025; EFM 2026 (Berlinale) | Seeking | Morocco at Cannes 2026 PDF (CCM). | ||
Eternal Peace Feature — Fiction | Fyzal Boulifa | Kasbah Films Morocco (Karim Debbagh) | Morocco | In a small English town, an immigrant father shoots his three children but spares his ex-wife — her punishment is to live. The narrative moves backwards to retrace their story. | Development | CCM (écriture de scénario); AFAC (développement); Red Sea Fund (développement); EFM Morocco in Focus | Morocco at Cannes 2026 PDF (CCM). | |||
Histoire d’Amour en Dix Chansons, Trois Mariages et un Baiser Feature — Fiction | Faouzi Bensaïdi | Mont Fleuri Production (Saïd Hamich Benlarbi); Barney Production; Niko Film (Nicole Gerhards); Gapbusters (Joseph Rouschop) | Morocco France Germany Belgium | Marrakech. Lhajja leads a popular wedding band — her son Bandar sings, Naima and Hajar dance, Abdou films. Around them are the musicians and a circle of neighbourhood friends. The story of their loves, disappointments, and dreams unfolds across ten songs, from popular hits to French chanson, raï, oriental music, and the great Arab divas. | Pre-Production | Morocco at Cannes 2026 PDF (CCM). | ||||
L’Homme des Signes Feature — Fiction | Zhor Fassi-Fihri | Z Films (Zhor Fassi-Fihri); Rose Films (France) | Morocco France | For a retrospective at a Paris gallery, Mehdi — an internationally renowned painter — looks back on a life forged from a Moroccan childhood of poverty, family violence, and rejection. Saved by art and an unexpected mentor, he turned survival into vocation. But behind the fame, one obsession persists: to find Florence, the young girl who first awakened his idea of love, freedom, and another possible life. | Post-Production | CCM grant | Morocco at Cannes 2026 PDF (CCM). | |||
La Punition Feature — Fiction | Ismael Ferroukhi | IFFILMS Productions | Morocco | Pending — not provided in CCM source. Avance sur recettes avant production, 3,900,000 DH. Scenario by Ismael Ferroukhi. | Pre-Production | CCM — Centre Cinématographique Marocain | CCM Communiqué, 1ère session 2026 | |||
Les Oiseaux du Cimetière Feature — Fiction | Madane El Ghazouani | Cygnus Productions | Morocco | Pending — not provided in CCM source. Avance sur recettes avant production, 3,500,000 DH. Scenario by Madane El Ghazouani. | Pre-Production | CCM — Centre Cinématographique Marocain | CCM Communiqué, 1ère session 2026 | |||
Ce Passé-Là ou Le Loup Noir Feature — Fiction | Amna Ferhati, Jilali Ferhati | Heracles Productions | Morocco | Pending — not provided in CCM source. Avance sur recettes avant production, 3,000,000 DH. Scenario by Amna Ferhati. Co-directed by Amna Ferhati and Jilali Ferhati. | Pre-Production | CCM — Centre Cinématographique Marocain | CCM Communiqué, 1ère session 2026 | |||
The Last Lesson / الدرس الأخير Feature — Fiction | Farid Regragui | Rabat MP | Morocco | Pending — not provided in CCM source. Avance sur recettes avant production, 3,000,000 DH. Scenario by Chaouki Sadoussi. | Pre-Production | CCM — Centre Cinématographique Marocain | CCM Communiqué, 1ère session 2026 | |||
Bin Lemdoune / بين المدون Feature — Fiction | Mohammed Mounna | Plot Pictures | Morocco | Pending — not provided in CCM source. Avance sur recettes avant production, 3,000,000 DH. Scenario by Ahmed Eddafiri. | Pre-Production | CCM — Centre Cinématographique Marocain | CCM Communiqué, 1ère session 2026 | |||
Rouicha Feature Documentary | Abdelkrim Benzoua | Gala Prod | Morocco | Documentary portrait. Avance sur recettes avant production, 1,000,000 DH. Scenario by Mohammed Hadri. Subject is Mohamed Rouicha (1950–2012), the late Moroccan Amazigh folk singer and lute player, a foundational figure in Amazigh music. | Pre-Production | CCM — Centre Cinématographique Marocain | CCM Communiqué, 1ère session 2026 | |||
Tombes Sans Épitaphes / قبور بلا شواهد Feature Documentary | Charqui Ameur | Art Now Prod | Morocco | Pending — not provided in CCM source. Avance sur recettes avant production, 800,000 DH. Own scenario. | Pre-Production | CCM — Centre Cinématographique Marocain | CCM Communiqué, 1ère session 2026 | |||
Viva L'Aita Short — Fiction | Reda Lahmouid | LK Films | Morocco | Pending — not provided in CCM source. Short film. Avance sur recettes avant production, 180,000 DH. Own scenario. Director also directing Remontada (AFP-D60380C7) — second project, separate AFP-ID per multi-project filmmaker convention. | Pre-Production | CCM — Centre Cinématographique Marocain | CCM Communiqué, 1ère session 2026 | |||
La Nuit du Père Short — Fiction | Rachid Boutounes | Maya Media | Morocco | Pending — not provided in CCM source. Short film. Avance sur recettes avant production, 180,000 DH. Own scenario. | Pre-Production | CCM — Centre Cinématographique Marocain | CCM Communiqué, 1ère session 2026 | |||
Amutl Short — Fiction | Fatine Khalkhal | Gala Prod | Morocco | Pending — not provided in CCM source. Short film. Avance sur recettes avant production, 180,000 DH. Scenario by Mohamed Ben Sidi. Title 'Amutl' is Tamazight (Amazigh language), suggesting Amazigh cultural context. | Pre-Production | CCM — Centre Cinématographique Marocain | CCM Communiqué, 1ère session 2026 | |||
Une Nuit Particulière Short — Fiction | Youssef Barrada | Jana Prod | Morocco | Pending — not provided in CCM source. Short film. Avance sur recettes avant production, 180,000 DH. Own scenario. | Pre-Production | CCM — Centre Cinématographique Marocain | CCM Communiqué, 1ère session 2026 | |||
Tenghity, Le Poème Interdit / تنغيتي القصيدة المحرمة Short — Fiction | Intissar El Azhari | On Set Productions | Morocco | Pending — not provided in CCM source. Short film. Avance sur recettes avant production, 180,000 DH. Own scenario. | Pre-Production | CCM — Centre Cinématographique Marocain | CCM Communiqué, 1ère session 2026 | |||
La Piste Feature — Fiction | Mohcine Nadifi | Ellipsis | Morocco | Aydan, a self-destructive young Moroccan bourgeois man, is falsely accused of killing his driver during his father’s funeral dinner. While on the run with his brother Ilyan, whom he had not seen in ten years, he investigates the case. Their path crosses Sara, an inspector affected by her father’s suicide, and they uncover a plot involving Commissioner Bougati, a family friend. Source: official Festival National du Film pitch catalogue, 19–21 October 2024, Tangier. | Development | CCM — Centre Cinématographique Marocain | CCM Communiqué, 1ère session 2026 | |||
Hakimi / الظلمي Feature — Fiction | Marouane Khayyari | Laboratoires Cinematographique et Technologiques | Morocco | At script-development stage. Contribution à l'écriture de scénario, 80,000 DH. Writer-director. | Development | CCM — Centre Cinématographique Marocain | CCM Communiqué, 1ère session 2026 | |||
Seisme Feature — Fiction | Zakia Tahiri, Leyna Bouchaala Tahiri, Geoffroy Grison | Made in Morocco Films | Morocco | At script-development stage. Contribution à l'écriture de scénario, 80,000 DH. CCM communiqué lists three co-writers (Zakia Tahiri, Leyna Bouchaala Tahiri, Geoffroy Grison) as scenarists; director credit not separately specified — all three listed as writer-directors per CCM writer-director convention. | Development | CCM — Centre Cinématographique Marocain | CCM Communiqué, 1ère session 2026 | |||
Cannot Be Bad / الخبث لا يناسبني Feature — Fiction | Ouijdane Khallid, Ahmed El Yazid El-Kadiri | On Set Productions | Morocco | At script-development stage. Contribution à l'écriture de scénario, 80,000 DH. CCM communiqué lists two co-writers (Ouijdane Khallid, Ahmed El Yazid El-Kadiri) as scenarists; both listed as writer-directors per CCM writer-director convention. | Development | CCM — Centre Cinématographique Marocain | CCM Communiqué, 1ère session 2026 | |||
Amal Feature — Fiction | Ismail Ait Lahcen | 2i Film | Morocco | At script-development stage. Contribution à l'écriture de scénario, 80,000 DH. Writer-director. | Development | CCM — Centre Cinématographique Marocain | CCM Communiqué, 1ère session 2026 | |||
Le Transsaharien Feature — Fiction | Rahma El Madani | Plein Cadres | Morocco | Rahma Benhamou El Madani has long been working on a fiction feature about her grandfather and the construction of the Trans-Saharan railway during the French protectorate in Morocco. Source: FilmExport filmmaker profile. | Development | CCM — Centre Cinématographique Marocain | CCM Communiqué, 1ère session 2026 | |||
Chant d'Amour et d'Exils / أغاني الحب والمنافي Feature — Fiction | Abdeslam Kelai | Mouton Rouge Films | Morocco | At script-development stage. Contribution à l'écriture de scénario, 80,000 DH. Writer-director. | Development | CCM — Centre Cinématographique Marocain | CCM Communiqué, 1ère session 2026 | |||
Fin Ghadi Bya / فين غادي بيا Feature — Fiction | Khalid Brahimi | CM Pictures | Morocco | At script-rewriting stage. Contribution à la réécriture de scénario, 50,000 DH. Scenario by Abdelilah Hamdouchi. | Development | CCM — Centre Cinématographique Marocain | CCM Communiqué, 1ère session 2026 | |||
Ta'm As-Sarab / طعم السراب Feature — Fiction | Sidi Mohamed Fadel El Joummani | Smara Production | Morocco | At script-rewriting stage. Contribution à la réécriture de scénario, 50,000 DH. Scenario by Nayma Lamghayfri. Arabic title: طعم السراب (Taste of Mirage). | Development | CCM — Centre Cinématographique Marocain | CCM Communiqué, 1ère session 2026 | |||
Le Dernier Thé / الشاي الأخير Feature — Fiction | Khaoula Assebab | Yaz'Image | Morocco | At script-rewriting stage. Contribution à la réécriture de scénario, 50,000 DH. Own scenario. | Development | CCM — Centre Cinématographique Marocain | CCM Communiqué, 1ère session 2026 | |||
Sirr La'unaybira / سر لعنيبرة Feature Documentary | Ahmed Zergane | Zarmedia | Morocco | Funded under CCM's "Documentaires sur la Culture, l'Histoire et l'Espace Sahraoui Hassani" category, a separate CCM funding stream for films treating Sahrawi cultural and historical subjects. Avance sur recettes avant production, Sahraoui Hassani category, 980,000 DH. Own scenario. Logline pending. | Pre-Production | CCM — Centre Cinématographique Marocain | CCM Communiqué, 1ère session 2026 | |||
Tigadrine / تيكادرين Feature Documentary | Abdelhakim Baidaoui | Assia Films | Morocco | Funded under CCM's "Documentaires sur la Culture, l'Histoire et l'Espace Sahraoui Hassani" category, a separate CCM funding stream for films treating Sahrawi cultural and historical subjects. Avance sur recettes avant production, Sahraoui Hassani category, 980,000 DH. Scenario by Driss El Kaissi and Said Kouis. Logline pending. | Pre-Production | CCM — Centre Cinématographique Marocain | CCM Communiqué, 1ère session 2026 | |||
Alhamel / الهامل Feature Documentary | Ahmed Bouchlagua | Sakia Pro | Morocco | Funded under CCM's "Documentaires sur la Culture, l'Histoire et l'Espace Sahraoui Hassani" category, a separate CCM funding stream for films treating Sahrawi cultural and historical subjects. Avance sur recettes avant production, Sahraoui Hassani category, 850,000 DH. Own scenario. Logline pending. | Pre-Production | CCM — Centre Cinématographique Marocain | CCM Communiqué, 1ère session 2026 | |||
Symphonie du Tissu / سمفونية القماش Feature Documentary | Aomar Mayara | Maysof Production | Morocco | Funded under CCM's "Documentaires sur la Culture, l'Histoire et l'Espace Sahraoui Hassani" category, a separate CCM funding stream for films treating Sahrawi cultural and historical subjects. Avance sur recettes avant production, Sahraoui Hassani category, 850,000 DH. Own scenario. Logline pending. | Pre-Production | CCM — Centre Cinématographique Marocain | CCM Communiqué, 1ère session 2026 | |||
Akdam Al-Karr / أكدامْ الكَّر Feature Documentary | Aida Bouya | Oasis Films | Morocco | Funded under CCM's "Documentaires sur la Culture, l'Histoire et l'Espace Sahraoui Hassani" category, a separate CCM funding stream for films treating Sahrawi cultural and historical subjects. Avance sur recettes avant production, Sahraoui Hassani category, 850,000 DH. Own scenario. Logline pending. | Pre-Production | CCM — Centre Cinématographique Marocain | CCM Communiqué, 1ère session 2026 | |||
Sahaba / سحابة Feature Documentary | Ali Oualdah | Network Film Agency | Morocco | Funded under CCM's "Documentaires sur la Culture, l'Histoire et l'Espace Sahraoui Hassani" category, a separate CCM funding stream for films treating Sahrawi cultural and historical subjects. Documentary at script-rewriting stage. Contribution à la réécriture de scénario, Sahraoui Hassani category, 50,000 DH. Scenario by Farhana Ayach. | Development | CCM — Centre Cinématographique Marocain | CCM Communiqué, 1ère session 2026 | |||
Sahara Through Women's Eyes / الصحراء بعيون نسائية Feature Documentary | Fatima Ezzahra Bounafaa | Ibdaa Laayoune Production | Morocco | Funded under CCM's "Documentaires sur la Culture, l'Histoire et l'Espace Sahraoui Hassani" category, a separate CCM funding stream for films treating Sahrawi cultural and historical subjects. Documentary at script-rewriting stage. Contribution à la réécriture de scénario, Sahraoui Hassani category, 50,000 DH. Scenario by Mohamed Dahouz. | Development | CCM — Centre Cinématographique Marocain | CCM Communiqué, 1ère session 2026 | |||
Istibil / استيبيل Feature Documentary | Aoulia Touir | Rola Media | Morocco | Funded under CCM's "Documentaires sur la Culture, l'Histoire et l'Espace Sahraoui Hassani" category, a separate CCM funding stream for films treating Sahrawi cultural and historical subjects. Documentary at script-rewriting stage. Contribution à la réécriture de scénario, Sahraoui Hassani category, 50,000 DH. Scenario by Aaini M'Naissir. | Development | CCM — Centre Cinématographique Marocain | CCM Communiqué, 1ère session 2026 | |||
Hares Al-Firdaws / حارس الفردوس Feature Documentary | Zaynab Toubali | AY Prod | Morocco | Funded under CCM's "Documentaires sur la Culture, l'Histoire et l'Espace Sahraoui Hassani" category, a separate CCM funding stream for films treating Sahrawi cultural and historical subjects. Documentary at script-rewriting stage. Contribution à la réécriture de scénario, Sahraoui Hassani category, 50,000 DH. Scenario by Mohamed Ayach. | Development | CCM — Centre Cinématographique Marocain | CCM Communiqué, 1ère session 2026 | |||
Beast Seeker Series — Animation | Robyn Viljoen | Danielle Retief | South Africa | Development | DFM Pitch and Finance Forum 2026, October 9–12, 2026 | |||||
capoZOOeira Series — Animation | Orlymar Paredes | Mary Waweru Wanjiku | KenyaBrazil | Development | DFM Pitch and Finance Forum 2026, October 9–12, 2026 | |||||
Hadu: The Series Series — Animation | Precious Anih | Damilola Solesi | Nigeria | Development | DFM Pitch and Finance Forum 2026, October 9–12, 2026 | |||||
Juju Soccer Series — Animation | C.J. Obasi | Oge Obasi | Nigeria | Development | DFM Pitch and Finance Forum 2026, October 9–12, 2026 | |||||
Nerve Series — Animation | Tshepo Moche | Raffaella Delle Donne | South Africa | Development | DFM Pitch and Finance Forum 2026, October 9–12, 2026 | |||||
Sunday Morning Series — Animation | Minasie Terefe | Nahom Abiy | Ethiopia | Development | DFM Pitch and Finance Forum 2026, October 9–12, 2026 ↗ | |||||
In Her Hands Short — Animation | Hagar Basiony | Gehad El Akhal | Egypt | Development | DFM Pitch and Finance Forum 2026, October 9–12, 2026 | |||||
Midnight Metro Feature — Animation | Lesego Vorster | Wako Sefara | South Africa | Development | DFM Pitch and Finance Forum 2026, October 9–12, 2026 | |||||
A Touch of Paradise Feature — Fiction | Houcem Slouli | Sarra Ben Hassen | Tunisia | Development | DFM Pitch and Finance Forum 2026, October 9–12, 2026 | |||||
Arbaa Shuhuor wu Ashara Ayam Feature — Fiction | Alyaa Musa | Alsamoual Hussein | Sudan | Arabic | Four Months and Ten Days | Development | DFM Pitch and Finance Forum 2026, October 9–12, 2026 | |||
Fairway to Freedom Feature — Fiction | Jahmil Qubeka | Tarina Patel | South Africa | Development | DFM Pitch and Finance Forum 2026, October 9–12, 2026 | |||||
Mieta Feature — Fiction | Carla Fonseca Mokgata | Neil Brandt | South Africa | Development | DFM Pitch and Finance Forum 2026, October 9–12, 2026 | |||||
Mother Theresa Feature — Fiction | Mutiganda wa Nkunda | Shema Faustin | Rwanda | Development | DFM Pitch and Finance Forum 2026, October 9–12, 2026 | |||||
Taht El Sama El Khadra' Feature — Fiction | Jad Chahine | Yara Goubran | Egypt | Arabic | Under Green Skies | Development | DFM Pitch and Finance Forum 2026, October 9–12, 2026 | |||
The Boy Who Spoke Static Feature — Fiction | The Agbajowo Collective | Mathew Cerf | Nigeria | Development | DFM Pitch and Finance Forum 2026, October 9–12, 2026 | |||||
Vino Amargo Feature — Fiction | Pablo Pinedo Bóveda | David Franciscus | South Africa | Bitter Wine | Development | DFM Pitch and Finance Forum 2026, October 9–12, 2026 | ||||
Again Series — Fiction | Erickey Bahati | Giresse Kassonga | Democratic Republic of Congo | Development | DFM Pitch and Finance Forum 2026, October 9–12, 2026 | |||||
Daddies Series — Fiction | Sean Mongie | Cati Weinek | South Africa | Development | DFM Pitch and Finance Forum 2026, October 9–12, 2026 | |||||
Fafi Series — Fiction | Dominique Jossie | Dominique Jossie | South Africa | Development | DFM Pitch and Finance Forum 2026, October 9–12, 2026 | |||||
Fisi Series — Fiction | Sanele Zulu | Mkamzee Mwatela | Kenya | Swahili | Hyena | Development | DFM Pitch and Finance Forum 2026, October 9–12, 2026 | |||
Smoke & Mirrors Series — Fiction | Jozua Malherbe | Luke Rous | South Africa | Development | DFM Pitch and Finance Forum 2026, October 9–12, 2026 | |||||
The Coven Series — Fiction | Sihle Mthembu | Sihle Mthembu | South Africa | Development | DFM Pitch and Finance Forum 2026, October 9–12, 2026 | |||||
Children of the Nile Series — Documentary | Tina Obo | Tina Obo | Uganda | Development | DFM Pitch and Finance Forum 2026, October 9–12, 2026 | |||||
Banat Aljazira Alkhadra' Feature — Documentary | Rogena Tarek | Amrosh Badr | Egypt | Arabic | Green Island's Girls | Development | DFM Pitch and Finance Forum 2026, October 9–12, 2026 | |||
Designing Divide Feature — Documentary | Jessie Ayles | Jessie Ayles | South Africa | Development | DFM Pitch and Finance Forum 2026, October 9–12, 2026 | |||||
Gwijo Nation Feature — Documentary | Sesihle Manzini | Quinton Fredericks | South Africa | Development | DFM Pitch and Finance Forum 2026, October 9–12, 2026 | |||||
Le Fil et le Mur Feature — Documentary | Mouni Boullam | Mouni Boullam | AlgeriaFrance | French | The Thread and the Wall | Development | DFM Pitch and Finance Forum 2026, October 9–12, 2026 | |||
Ma Nuit du Djomele Feature — Documentary | Barkima Nafissatou Laguempedo | Hicham Falah | Burkina Faso | French | My Djomele Night | Development | DFM Pitch and Finance Forum 2026, October 9–12, 2026 | |||
Majuto si Mjukuu Feature — Documentary | Saitabao Kaiyare | Mumo Liku | Kenya | Swahili | Heirs of no Regret | Development | DFM Pitch and Finance Forum 2026, October 9–12, 2026 | |||
The Ones With The Tempered Flowers Feature — Documentary | Neema Ngelime | Ivy Kiru (AQ Pictures; LBx Africa) | TanzaniaKenya | Development | DFM Pitch and Finance Forum 2026, October 9–12, 2026 | |||||
Urban Zulu: The Busi Mhlongo Story Feature — Documentary | Rehad Desai | Struan Douglas | South Africa | Development | DFM Pitch and Finance Forum 2026, October 9–12, 2026 | |||||
Waiting for Evolution Feature — Documentary | Karin Slater | Karin Slater | South Africa | Development | DFM Pitch and Finance Forum 2026, October 9–12, 2026 | |||||
Traces of a Broken Line (w/t) Short — Fiction | Akuol de Mabior | Akuol de Mabior | South AfricaSouth Sudan | War breaks a lineage, forcing a mother to preserve what she can no longer pass down. | Development | Displacement Film Fund Second Cycle, announced May 18, 2026 at Cannes | ||||
Peu importe le sexe Feature — Fiction | Missa N'dry | Côte d'Ivoire | French | Development | NEXT STORY LAB inaugural cohort, announced Cannes Marché du Film, May 17, 2026 | |||||
Abidjan Fashion Empire TBC | Yannick Domingo | Côte d'Ivoire | French | Development | NEXT STORY LAB inaugural cohort, announced Cannes Marché du Film, May 17, 2026 | |||||
Bling-Bling TBC | Ange-Eric N'Guessan & Akouvi Aimée | Côte d'Ivoire | French | Development | NEXT STORY LAB inaugural cohort, announced Cannes Marché du Film, May 17, 2026 | |||||
Kèlè Bana TBC | Marina Niava | Côte d'Ivoire | French | Development | NEXT STORY LAB inaugural cohort, announced Cannes Marché du Film, May 17, 2026 | |||||
Le poids des cordes TBC | Omraam Diabaté | Côte d'Ivoire | French | Development | NEXT STORY LAB inaugural cohort, announced Cannes Marché du Film, May 17, 2026 | |||||
La Nuit du Serment TBC | Ouohi Batou Joël | Côte d'Ivoire | French | Development | NEXT STORY LAB inaugural cohort, announced Cannes Marché du Film, May 17, 2026 | |||||
L'élu des ombres TBC | Salif Koné | Côte d'Ivoire | French | Development | NEXT STORY LAB inaugural cohort, announced Cannes Marché du Film, May 17, 2026 | |||||
Maman TBC | Laura Mel Doumbia | Côte d'Ivoire | French | Development | NEXT STORY LAB inaugural cohort, announced Cannes Marché du Film, May 17, 2026 | |||||
Rubino TBC | Frédérique Zakra | Côte d'Ivoire | French | Development | NEXT STORY LAB inaugural cohort, announced Cannes Marché du Film, May 17, 2026 | |||||
When TBC | Vicky N'doko Yao | Côte d'Ivoire | French | Development | NEXT STORY LAB inaugural cohort, announced Cannes Marché du Film, May 17, 2026 | |||||
Mental Series — Fiction | Edwin Kairu | Kenya | English | Development | KFC/GIZ Screenwriters' Residency, Film Empowerment Programme Cycle 4, awarded December 2025 | |||||
Offside Series — Fiction | Lydia Matata | Kenya | English | Development | KFC/GIZ Screenwriters' Residency, Film Empowerment Programme Cycle 4, awarded December 2025 | |||||
Most Outlandish Heist Series — Fiction | Hannington Juma | Kenya | English | Development | KFC/GIZ Screenwriters' Residency, Film Empowerment Programme Cycle 4, awarded December 2025 | |||||
My Girlfriend Wanjiru Is a Vampire Series — Fiction | Gift Kyansimire | Kenya | English | Development | KFC/GIZ Screenwriters' Residency, Film Empowerment Programme Cycle 4, awarded December 2025 | |||||
Timeline Bloodline Series — Fiction | Wacuka Mungai | Kenya | English | Development | KFC/GIZ Screenwriters' Residency, Film Empowerment Programme Cycle 4, awarded December 2025 | |||||
Wash Wash Series — Fiction | D&R Studios Limited | Kenya | English | Development | KFC/GIZ Co-Production Funding Window, Film Empowerment Programme, awarded December 2025 | |||||
Death and Its Friends Feature — Fiction | Kudi Maradzika | Lincoln Green Media | South Africa | Family drama. Maradzika's debut feature direction. | Development | Wscripted 2026 Cannes Screenplay List, Deadline, May 26, 2026 | ||||
ORAYA Feature — Animation | Francis Yushau Brown | AnimaxFYB Studios | Ghana | A 90-minute 2.5D animated feature set in a futuristic Ghana, targeting a 16+ global audience. Follows a gifted tech creator accused of engineering a global addiction, who must redeem himself by leading a fractured group of pan-African heroes against a covert syndicate exploiting Earth's last sacred energy source. | Development | AnimaxFYB Studios at Cannes Marché du Film, MyJoyOnline, May 1, 2026 | ||||
The Jaru Road Feature — Fiction | Kenneth Gyang | Cinema Kpatakpata; AREWA24 | Nigeria | Hausa | Post-Production | Trailer Unveil at NIFS@Cannes Focus on Africa Conference, May 13, 2026; AREWA24 announcement July 2025 | ||||
Vieux Kilo Feature — Documentary | Nelson Makengo | Madeline Robert (Les Films de la Caravane); Nelson Makengo (Théâtre Urbain Studio) | Democratic Republic of CongoFrance | In a Belgian suburban garden, buried memories are recalled about a Catholic mission in Eastern Congo, preaching in Swahili and ammunition made from copper extracted from the Kilo-Moto mines. | Development | Cannes Docs 2026 Spotlighted Projects, May 16, 2026 | ||||
re:collection Feature — Documentary | Dane Dodds | Antoinette Engel (MED CINE) | South AfricaDenmark | The ǂKhomani San seek to rebury their ancestors, whose remains are held in South Africa's national museum after being exhumed for race science at the turn of the twentieth century. | Production | Cannes Docs 2026 Spotlighted Projects, May 16, 2026 | ||||
Time Hunter Feature — Documentary | Daniel Chein; Mushiva | David Felix Sutcliffe (Topeka Pictures); Daniel Chein (Waypoint Pictures); Thomas Kaske (Seera Films); Joel Haikali (Joe Vision Production) | NamibiaGermanyUnited States | Follows Mushiva, a creative technologist and musician, as he migrates to Berlin from Namibia, a former German colony. By day, he uses emergent technologies to investigate Germany's colonial crimes in Namibia; by night, his music performances summon his alter ego — the Time Hunter, a speculative agitator on a quest to disrupt colonial forces across past, present, and future. | Post-Production | Cannes Docs 2026 Spotlighted Projects, May 16, 2026 | ||||
A Tale Of A Feather And A Fish Feature — Documentary | Ahmed El-Hawarey | Egypt | Development | Aflamuna Connection 2026 selection, Screen Daily, May 27, 2026 | ||||||
A Young Man In Trouble Feature — Fiction | Ahmed Sobhy | Egypt | Development | Aflamuna Connection 2026 selection, Screen Daily, May 27, 2026 | ||||||
Accept My Plea For Burial Feature — Fiction | Mohammed Sheikh | Kadir Harbi Hassan (Aleel Films) | SomaliaDjibouti | Development | Aflamuna Connection 2026 selection, Screen Daily, May 27, 2026 | |||||
I Have Other Friends Feature — Documentary | Yomna Khattab | Egypt | An unflinching exploration of female friendship, adulthood, and the passage of time. Blending diary, correspondence, and confessional, the project revisits the filmmaker's relationships with five close friends as she approaches 40. | Development | Aflamuna Connection 2026 selection, Screen Daily, May 27, 2026 | |||||
Trip To My Body Feature — Documentary | Bassem Ben Brahim | Tunisia | Post-Production | Aflamuna Connection 2026 selection, Screen Daily, May 27, 2026 | ||||||
Wilderness Of Dreams Feature — Documentary | Mona Lotfy | Egypt | Post-Production | Aflamuna Connection 2026 selection, Screen Daily, May 27, 2026 | ||||||
Too Much Music Feature — Documentary | Aseye Fiagbe | Aseye Fiagbe | Ghana | Documentary portrait of Ghanaian keyboard prodigy Kiki Gyan. | Development | Locarno Open Doors 2026 Projects selection, June 1, 2026 | ||||
I Live in V.I Feature — Fiction | Ugochukwu Azuya | Olubunmi Ogunsola (ENSEMBLE) | Nigeria | A sharp social satire about urban space and gentrification. | Development | Locarno Open Doors 2026 Projects selection, June 1, 2026 | ||||
A Vineyard for A Lobster Feature — Fiction | Talemwa Pius | Gashumba Emmanuel (Gripmagic Uganda Limited) | Uganda | Uses a snow-covered landscape as an allegory for the enduring shadows of colonialism. | Development | Locarno Open Doors 2026 Projects selection, June 1, 2026 | ||||
Kongo is Burning Feature — Documentary | Arnold Aganze | Ali Musoke (Stone Age Pictures) | Democratic Republic of CongoDenmarkUganda | Filmed over a decade in eastern Congo, follows two transgender women navigating love, exile, and survival in a society shaped by faith and repression — queer resilience, memory, and the radical act of remaining visible. | Post-Production | IDFA Project Space 2026 selection, May 28, 2026 | ||||
Rising Sun (Soleil Levant) Feature — Documentary | Mickael-sltan Mbanza | Petna Ndaliko Katondolo (Alkebu Film Productions); Rosa Spaliviero (Twenty Nine Studio & Production) | Democratic Republic of CongoBelgium | Production | IDFA Bertha Fund IBF Classic 2026, May 21, 2026 | |||||
Dalal Feature — Documentary | Bibi Fadlalla | SudanNetherlands | Youth documentary centered on a ten-year-old Sudanese girl spending her summer wandering the streets of Cairo, seeking refuge from tensions at home. | Development | TalentScope Documentary 2026 second cohort announcement, IDFA, May 13, 2026 | |||||
Stowaway Man Feature — Documentary | Festus Toll | KenyaNetherlands | Follows a young Kenyan man who hides in the landing gear of an airplane in an attempt to reach the Netherlands. | Development | TalentScope Documentary 2026 second cohort announcement, IDFA, May 13, 2026 | |||||
Achugogo: Tale of the Spring Chaser Series — Animation | Michael Uwandi | Tendayi Nyeke, Sy Huq | France South Africa United States | Three siblings forged from iron and magic, raised in isolation, discover they are their people's last hope against an ancient threat, and must confront winter-bearing titans to reclaim Spring before an Eternal Winter consumes their world. | Development | Annecy/Mifa Pitches 2026 — TV Series & Specials (official selection) ↗ | ||||
Dogi Dogi Feature — Fiction | Kelvin Kagambo | Tanzania | Not yet publicly available. | Development | Talents Durban 2026 | Director’s prior shorts include Unasemaje? (ZIFF; Ngalabi Short Film Festival, 2024–25). | ||||
Bare Feet Feature — Fiction | Lawrencia Aphua Larbi-Amoah | Ghana | Not yet publicly available. | Development | Talents Durban 2026 | Talents Durban 2026 (19th edition) official selection — Durban FilmMart Institute | ||||
The Violent Type Feature — Fiction | Meekaaeel Adam | South Africa | Not yet publicly available. | Development | Talents Durban 2026 | Director is an established cinematographer; directed the feature The Trek (2026, Joburg Film Festival). | ||||
The Basement Feature — Fiction | Mélanie K. Zawadi | Democratic Republic of Congo | Not yet publicly available. | Development | Talents Durban 2026 | Talents Durban 2026 (19th edition) official selection — Durban FilmMart Institute | ||||
The Things We Leave Behind Feature — Fiction | Russell Oru | Nigeria | Not yet publicly available. | Development | Talents Durban 2026 | Director’s prior shorts include The Waiting Song (2024) and The Day the Heart Died (Film Africa, 2025). | ||||
The Words I Do Not Have Feature — Fiction | Shandra Apondi | Kenya | Not yet publicly available. | Development | Talents Durban 2026 | Actress-turned-director; her short Owadwa (Our Brother) screened in the Red Sea Shorts Competition 2025. | ||||
Sabary Feature Documentary | Ahmed Shams Nagm Eldin | Sudan | Not yet publicly available. | Development | Talents Durban 2026 | Talents Durban 2026 (19th edition) official selection — Durban FilmMart Institute | ||||
The Birth of Derna Feature Documentary | Hussein Eddeb | Libya | Not yet publicly available. | Development | Talents Durban 2026 | Also presented at the MEDIMED Doc Market 2025. | ||||
Abéti Feature Documentary | Junior Mozese | Democratic Republic of Congo | Not yet publicly available. | Development | Talents Durban 2026 | Director is the founder of Moz’Art Studios; prior films include Ndoto (2021) and Kin ma belle (2023). | ||||
Rivers: Under Threat Feature Documentary | Michelle Simon | South Africa | Not yet publicly available. | Development | Talents Durban 2026 | Talents Durban 2026 (19th edition) official selection — Durban FilmMart Institute | ||||
Fitampoha, the Return of the King of Menabe Feature Documentary | Anatole Ramaroson | Madagascar | Not yet publicly available. | Development | Talents Durban 2026 | Director is a veteran Malagasy documentary filmmaker, active since 1993, and founder of the Ant’Sary Doc festival. | ||||
Goodbye Party Feature Documentary | Sarra El Abed | Tunisia | Not yet publicly available. | Development | Talents Durban 2026 | Director’s short Ain’t No Time for Women won Best Canadian Short at Hot Docs and screened at Clermont-Ferrand and DOK Leipzig. | ||||
Cause, Effect & Maybe Consequences? Series | Cheyi Okoaye | Nigeria | Not yet publicly available. | Development | Talents Durban 2026 | Director has made five short films, three of them award-winning, and won the NEFTI Nigeria competition in 2023. | ||||
Slightly Awkward Series | Des Dlamini | South Africa | Not yet publicly available. | Development | Talents Durban 2026 | Talents Durban 2026 (19th edition) official selection — Durban FilmMart Institute | ||||
Borrowed Skin Series | Rudo Furusa | Botswana | Not yet publicly available. | Development | Talents Durban 2026 | Talents Durban 2026 (19th edition) official selection — Durban FilmMart Institute | ||||
The Eleventh Year Series | Hawa Sogoba | Mali | Not yet publicly available. | Development | Talents Durban 2026 | Director’s prior credits include Le carnet (2018), Magnon (2022) and Fady, le village des transformés (2023). | ||||
All You Sheep Animation | Jack Machiridza | Zimbabwe | Not yet publicly available. | Development | Talents Durban 2026 | Talents Durban 2026 (19th edition) official selection — Durban FilmMart Institute | ||||
Alexandria Forever Animation | Kirollos George | Egypt | Not yet publicly available. | Development | Talents Durban 2026 | Talents Durban 2026 (19th edition) official selection — Durban FilmMart Institute | ||||
Amandla Animation | Pule Mohotsi | South Africa | Not yet publicly available. | Development | Talents Durban 2026 | Talents Durban 2026 (19th edition) official selection — Durban FilmMart Institute | ||||
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