The festival opened on Thursday with Bolanle Austen-Peters’s Collision Course, which tells the story of how the worlds of a law enforcement officer and an aspiring musician collide. It stars Chioma Chukwuka Akpotha, Ade Laoye, Kenneth Okolie, Daniel Etim Effiong, Bimbo Manuel, Kalu Ikeagwu and Nobert Young.
Four films featured in this diet of the festival — Collision Course, Lockdown, Kunle Afolayan’s award winning feature, Citation and Paul Apel Papel’s award winning feature, Eagle Wings. Founded in 2016, the NTFF is reputed as Nigeria’s biggest and foremost travel film festival. It hosts screenings of Nollywood films in cities around the world and it has so far been held in cities such as, Berlin, New York, Glasgow, Helsinki, Peru, Toronto and Amsterdam.
The 75th edition of the Festival de Cannes opened on May 17 at Cannes, South of France. A moving, outward-looking ceremony with a conscience, and speeches that will resonate across the 12 days of the event, such as the one given by Vincent Lindon, president of the Feature Films Jury, the festival closed on May 28 with an award ceremony, which was broadcast live on France 2 and internationally on Brut.
With Africa and the African Diaspora at the heart of the industry programme, mainstream film professionals, established independents, emerging and alternative filmmakers who continue to shape new directions with their work will present masterclasses, panel discussions and hangout sessions.
The other programmes are talent Durban talks where Directors from across the continent highlight their storytelling journeys and Durban content and co-production market where professionals share notes on the exciting developments and digital opportunities in the areas of sales, distribution and festival strategy.