NOW FILM FESTIVAL

Paris film festival celebrating bold, surprising cinema from Africa and beyond.
May 2027 • Submissions open Sept 14
Paris, France

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For updates on the festival, official selections, award winners, filmmaker news, industry conversations, and cinema from Nigeria, Africa & the diaspora. Follow us here.
Founded in 2013. The 2026 edition just wrapped!
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TNR Exclusive 🎬

Folashayo Oke Sobo opens up about East West Love, the Nigeria-Kenya collaboration directed by Seko Shamte and co-produced by Sobo and Dolapo “LowlaDee” Adeleke.

https://t.co/tZ8zN5VhZk

#TNRExclusive #EastWestLove #FolashayoOkeSobo #LowlaDee #Nollywood

[What Kept Me Up @WKM_Up]

Watch the trailer for East-West Love, the opening film for 2026 NollywoodWeek film festival.

Starring Sunshine Rosman, Brian Abajah, Seko Shamte’s Kenya-Nigeria story follows a post-breakup trip to Mombasa.

More about the opening and closing films. https://t.co/uMQU0lObkd

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Watch the trailer for Kenyan-Nigerian collaboration East West Love.

Set predominantly in Kenya’s coastal city of Mombasa, with some scenes filmed in Lagos, the film is directed by Tanzanian filmmaker Seko Shamte and produced by Nigeria’s Dolapo Adeleke and Folashayo Oke Solo.

[CINEWAX | African movies @Lecinewax]

La Fête du Cinéma arrive, et on a une surprise pour vous ! Cinewax et UGC fêtent les cinémas africains et caribéens, avec une sélection de films du 28 juin au 1er juillet.
Des débats et rencontres, et des grands films à voir ou revoir

🎫 réserver ici : https://t.co/NxgHlv6Yay

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@France24_en with festival co-founder Serge Noukoué.

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@WKM_Up After a premiere at the @nollywoodweek East West Love gets its international cinema run from October 9th!

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NOW, we want to see your film.

Submissions for the next edition of NOW Film Festival, Paris open September 14.

🎬 Features
🎞️ Shorts
✨ Animation
📺 Series
Cinema from Africa + the African diaspora.
Final deadline: November 30.
#NOWFilmFestival #AfricanCinema #CallForEntries

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Submissions opening soon. @nollywoodweek https://t.co/4h0tVTaKrU

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“East West Love” Connects the Continent Through Cinema https://t.co/wLi0lzKfj9

[Akoroko — African Cinema Now! @akorokoafrica]

All East African films today
Logline 5/5 · 5 clues
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🔑 7 lifelines used
Five African films a day — identify each from its clues.
#AFPLogline https://t.co/tRc3ajau8Y

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Du studio derrière Uli & Tata, présenté deux fois à NollyKids, découvrez Boy Boi — une nouvelle série animée 2D venue du Kenya.
Située à Nairobi, la série suit Boi, 6 ans, dans des aventures drôles, rythmées et pleines de surprises.

Soutenez Boy Boi ici : https://t.co/ZfQr7PWaPj

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From the studio behind Uli & Tata, screened twice at NollyKids, comes Boy Boi — a new 2D animated kids series from Kenya.
The series follows 6-year-old Boi on funny, action-packed adventures.
Help bring Boy Boi to life: https://t.co/ZfQr7PWaPj

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Au-delà des projections, NOW2026 a réuni des conversations autour des droits musicaux, de l’IA dans la production, du microdrama, de la narration verticale, de la distribution, du public et de l’avenir du cinéma du continent et de sa diaspora.
À suivre.

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Beyond the screenings, NOW2026 brought together conversations on music rights, AI in film production, microdrama- vertical storytelling, distribution, audience-building, creation of black superheroes and the future of African cinema and its diaspora.
More takeaways coming soon.

[Sinema Focus KE @sinemafocuske]

Kenyan-Nigerian Feature ‘East West Love’ to Open NollywoodWeek 2026 in Paris

Making its world premiere, the cross-border romantic comedy is set between Mombasa and Lagos and features a Nigerian and Kenyan cast.

Read more here: https://t.co/C2wvGFjn0h

[What Kept Me Up @WKM_Up]

Ema Edosio’s When Nigeria Happens turns the exhaustion of living in Nigeria into movement, music, and emotion, using dance to tell its story.

Read more in our NollywoodWeek review. https://t.co/pHwJSVZVA5

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During NollywoodWeek NOW2026 we had an interesting panel on AI in African Cinema and two of the panelists, @obitalks and @slickcityceo , discussed some of those topics on France24

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Eye on Africa - Can artificial intelligence help Nollywood tell African stories differently without losing its soul?
➡️ https://t.co/z437IEgITF

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NOW2026 s’est ouverte avec la première mondiale de EAST WEST LOVE et s’est clôturée avec l’avant-première européenne de OGENE, présentée en partenariat avec CLAM Magazine.
De Nigeria au Kenya, du Japon à Paris — cette édition a pleinement incarné son thème : Voyager.

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NOW2026 opened with the world premiere of EAST WEST LOVE and closed with the European premiere of OGENE, presented in partnership with CLAM Magazine.
From Lagos to Mombasa, from Japan to Paris — this edition truly lived its theme: Voyager.
#NollywoodWeek

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Le Jury Long Métrage a également décerné deux mentions spéciales à :
MEMORY OF PRINCESS MUMBI, réalisé par Damien Hauser
WHEN NIGERIA HAPPENS, réalisé par Ema Edosio Deelen
Deux œuvres fortes de la sélection officielle NOW2026.
#NOW2026

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The Feature Film Jury also awarded special mentions to:
MEMORY OF PRINCESS MUMBI, directed by Damien Hauser
WHEN NIGERIA HAPPENS, directed by Ema Edosio Deelen
Two bold, memorable works from the NOW2026 official selection.
#NOW2026