African Pictures
SIFF’s African Pictures program showcases the best filmmaking happening in and about Africa today, bringing shorts, features, documentaries, and fiction films to American audiences. Don’t miss this opportunity to delight in these innovative and inspiring works spanning Africa’s diverse regions and cultures.
BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions
USA | 2025 | 113 min. | Kahlil Joseph
Kahlil Joseph deftly intertwines Afrofuturist narrative, family legacy, and archival footage into a visual and cerebral feast.
Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight
South Africa | 2024 | 98 min. | Embeth Davidtz
Adaptation of Alexandra Fuller’s memoir about an eight-year-old farmgirl who witnesses Rhodesia’s tumultuous political shift.
Everybody Loves Touda
France | 2024 | 101 min. | Nabil Ayouch
Touda dreams of being a SHEIKHA, or traditional Moroccan folk singer.
Hanami
Switzerland | 2024 | 96 min. | Denise Fernandes
Nana lives on a remote volcanic island. She will spend her life trying to find the right answer to the lingering question: Should she stay or should she go?
How to Build a Library
Kenya | 2025 | 100 min. | Maia Lekow, Christopher King
Two women set out to decolonize Nairobi’s formerly whites-only McMillan Memorial Library and turn it into a multicultural hub.
Khartoum
Sudan | 2025 | 80 min. | Anas Saeed, Rawia Alhag, Brahim Snoopy, Timeea Mohamed Ahmed, Phil Cox
Five refugees use green screen technology to reenact their lives leading up to the military coup that forced their evacuation.
The Village Next to Paradise
Somalia | 2024 | 133 min. | Mo Harawe
A villager and his sister try to make ends meet and send his son off to boarding school.