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Nigerian movies continue to make waves in international film festivals. Ibidunni Oladayo’s It Happened Again has been selected to showcase at the 2023 Cannes International Pan-African Film Festival.

A Nigerian journalist, Chinalurumogu Eze, who won the 2023 Future Creative Leaders Academy (FCLA) Prize for the Roger Hatchuel Student Academy and was scheduled to represent Nigeria at the Roger Hatchuel Student Academy (RHSA) in the Cannes Lion Festival in France, has revealed that she will not be attending the …

A tense courtroom drama about a writer accused of her husband’s murder won the Palme d’Or at the 76th Cannes Film Festival, capping a strong year for female directors. French director Justine Triet won the festival’s top prize on Saturday for the tense and icy drama, Anatomy of a Fall, …

The Cannes Film Festival began this week with Maïwenn’s “Jeanne du Barry,” starring Johnny Depp as Louis XV, and ends on May 27 with a new Pixar film, “Elemental.” In between, there will be many screenings, many awkward standing ovations, many awards bestowed. This is the first year I (kind …

Nollywood actress, Chika Ike put Nigeria on the map at the 2023 76th Cannes Film Festival after making the best-dressed list on Vogue, New York Times, and Harper’s Bazaar. The actress in the photos shared walked down the red carpet looking stunning and enchanting in a gorgeous green peacock gown …

Chika Ike walked this year’s Cannes Film Festival red carpet looking fabulous. Nigerian actress, Chike Ike is one of the attendees at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

The CEO of EbonyLife Media made her directorial debut in 2022 with two short films – Iyawo Mi and Her Perfect Life. Deadline reports that Her Perfect Life is set to screen at the Cannes Film Festival’s Short Film Corner this month while both films have also been selected for …

Written by Mohammed Abdelbary, CNNAbu Dhabi A version of this story first appeared in CNN’s Meanwhile in the Middle East newsletter, a three-times-a-week look inside the region’s biggest stories. Sign up here. When Iranian actress Zar Amir Ebrahimi fled her country in 2006 due to a leaked tape, she thought …