Congratulations to #DFMIAlumni Ben’Imana by Marie-Clementine Dusabejambo for winning the Caméra d’Or @Festival_Cannes 🎬🏆
We celebrate this remarkable milestone and the continued global impact of African storytelling. ✨
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The Durban FilmMart Institute has announced thirty-six African film projects for the 17th Durban FilmMart, Africa’s largest film finance and co-production market, set to take place from 9th to 12th October, 2026 in Durban, South Africa.
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The voice of a nation, Toto La Momposina, the iconic Afro-Colombian singer and child of political prisoners who was black listed by Colombia’s fascist government for the pride of Black resistance in her music, has passed. She was the soundtrack to my childhood, she’s who I put on and dance for hours to when I’ve had a bad day, she is all of Latin America to me, her Bullerengues are a spiritual realm, and she herself is eternal. Rest in power, Reina de la Cumbia 🕊️
We don’t need unnecessarily explicit scenes, we never need to see the sex on screen ever. We need writers & directors & producers with the spine to protect their cast & the talent to be interesting WITH their clothes on.
As a filmmaker & actress, this is not just infuriating, it’s also boring AF. I reject many auditions for local work coz the sex hungry scripts are intellectually hollow. If the breakdown says "must be comfortable with simulated sex & nudity," I already know the writing is failing
It takes huge courage to speak out esp coz it threatens careers for simply demanding dignity. Our country experiences GBV daily. To then walk onto a set where support is flimsy & intimacy coordination is treated as a box ticking exercise is to walk into a minefield
What happened is not an isolated on-set accident. Its the inevitable result of a culture that treats female bodies as props & considers boundaries an inconvenience to “the vision”.
487 projects from 44 countries applied!
36 projects from 16 countries selected.
We hope we could have selected more but the programme is limited to time and space.
We look forward to seeing you at DFM 2026 (9-12 October)