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Presenting the results from the WKMUp Critics Poll 2025.
For the fourth edition, participating critics selected their top films, directors and performances from 88 releases across cinemas and streaming platforms.
Join our Critics Roundtable Twitter Space by 6pm on March 13th to discuss the results with participating critics and general audience.
Read the results breakdown and how each critic voted on our website with the link in bio.
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Our 2026 movies preview rolls out all week with exclusive stills and BTS materials from some of the most anticipated titles of the year.
On the list of 30+ titles are Damilola Orimogunje’s Dear Ajayi, Clarissa from the Esiri brothers, and a feature-length adaptation of Chioma Paul Dike’s 2023 horror short. These titles are set to be released across cinemas, streaming platforms, and film festivals in 2026.
Read the full article of our most anticipated Nigerian titles of the year on our website with the link in bio.
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Submissions are now open for the 2026 edition of CANEX Shorts, the annual short film competition organised by the African Export–Import Bank through its Creative Africa Nexus initiative.
Themed “One People, United in Cultire” the competition is open to filmmakers aged 18 to 35 from Africa, the diaspora and the Caribbean, the competition accepts short films in Fiction, Documentary and Animation categories. Only one film is allowed per filmmaker, must not exceed five minutes and must have been produced in or after 2024.
Thirty films will be shortlisted for screening at CANEX WKND 2026, where winners will receive $2,000 cash prizes, CANEX Shorts Awards and access to industry networking opportunities.
Entries are open until June 30 via FilmFreeway.
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NollywoodWeek 2026 wrapped up with wins for Onobiren, The Fisherman and Kenyan short film Goat, closing out five days of film screenings, panels and conversations about where African cinema is headed next.
Read more in our festival recap on the website with the link in bio.
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Directed by Famous Odion Iraoya, Onobiren sets out to tell a different kind of Nollywood story about women, one that moves beyond familiar stereotypes.
Written and produced by Laju Iren, the story follows Roli (Ruby Akubueze), a young woman from a fishing village in Warri who travels to Lagos in search of a better life after accepting an offer from a wealthy family.
The faith-based film won the People’s Choice Award at NollywoodWeek 2026.
Read the full review on our website with the link in bio.
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From Lisabi: A Legend Is Born to My Father’s Shadow, here’s a quick streaming guide to some of the AMVCA 2026 winning titles currently available across major platforms.
Read more details on where to stream other nominated titles on our website with the link in our bio.
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Ema Edosio’s When Nigeria Happens turns the exhaustion of living in Nigeria into movement, music, and emotion, using dance to tell its story.
Co-written by Bayo Oduwole, the film follows Fagbo (Abella Domdom Dominic) the leader of a struggling dance group living in Lagos, as he tries to hold onto his dreams and the people around him while facing poverty, police brutality, family hardship, and a system determined to break him.
Read the full review on our website with the link in bio.
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Genevieve Nnaji has been announced as part of the cast of BBC’s six-part thriller Wahala, an adaptation of Nikki May’s novel by BAFTA-nominated writer Theresa Ikoko.
The series, produced by Firebird Pictures for BBC iPlayer and BBC One, stars a female-led ensemble including Adelayo Adedayo, Deborah Ayorinde, Cush Jumbo and Susan Wokoma, with Nnaji joining the cast as filming begins.
Wahala follows four Nigerian-British women in London whose friendship is tested as long-buried secrets and new relationships begin to surface. The story moves between their present lives and earlier experiences, gradually revealing how their past continues to affect them.
In a statement to BBC, Nnaji said she is pleased to be part of the project, calling it an ‘intriguing story’.
Her casting in Wahala comes after a long hiatus from the industry since her 2018 appearance in Lionheart. In 2023, she coproduced I Do Not Come To You By Dance which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.
BBC Studios will handle global sales.
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Morgan Freeman and Lori McCreary are set to executive produce a new feature from C.J. Obasi.
The project was unveiled at the Cannes Film Market as part of Seoul-based Flix Oven’s newly launched African-Korean filmmaker residency programme, created in partnership with Continental Entertainment, an African-focused representation and production company founded by Ozi Menakaya.
Obasi has been named the programme’s inaugural fellow and will spend a month in Seoul developing the feature that has been described as a story bridging African and Korean cultures, with a theatrical release already planned.
Freeman and McCreary will executive produce through Revelations Entertainment, the production company they cofounded. The collaboration continues Freeman’s growing connection to Nigerian cinema. In 2022, Revelations Entertainment partnered with Kaduna-based Nigerian filmmaking collective The Critics Company on the short film Ogun Ola: War Is Coming, which Freeman narrated and executive produced with McCreary.
Obasi’s latest directorial feature A Blue Butterfly, starring Sanaa Lathan and Steve Toussaint, recently wrapped the London leg of production and has moved to Rwanda for its next phase of production.
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Inspired by real events, Hussaini keeps things simple by telling the story of ordinary people trying their best to hold things together as life slowly becomes overwhelming.
Directed by Orire Nwani, the short film follows Hussaini (Abba Ali-Zaky), an okada rider living with his pregnant wife (Ijapari Ben-Hirki) in a small shanty home, as everyday pressures begin to pile up.
Read the full NollywoodWeek review on our website with the link in bio.
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With Cannes film festival kicking off on May 12, Nigerian titles and talents are part of the conversation again this year.
Clarissa, the new feature from Arie and Chuko Esiri, leads the Nigerian presence at Directors’ Fortnight, while names like Dika Ofoma, Shirley Frimpong-Manso, Nicolette Ndigwe-Kalu and AFRIFF delegates also head to the Croisette for Cannes 2026.
Read more about Nigerian presence at Cannes on our website with the link in bio.
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