The frame travels
Lagos is writing for a screen that no longer sits still in one country. What happens to a film when its first…
The Ledger
Every piece Qollom has run, in the order it ran.
The Screen Score: Kinshasa Cowboys
A raucous, energetic road movie that tears across the DRC with a punk spirit and genuine heart.
The Screen Score: The Last Griot
A fable-like drama about a Malian oral historian trying to preserve his village's memory before it is swallowed by a dam.
The Screen Score: Blood Meridian, Cape Town
A neo-noir that relocates McCarthy's brutal moral landscape to post-apartheid South Africa with sobering results.
The Screen Score: Accra After Dark
A nocturnal portrait of Accra's underground music scene that works better as a document than as a narrative.
The Screen Score: Daughters of the Volta
A generational saga about three sisters navigating identity, tradition and ambition across two continents.
The Screen Score: The Nairobi Protocol
A taut political thriller that uses its Kenyan setting to ask genuinely uncomfortable questions about sovereignty.
The Screen Score: Dust & Harmattan
A slow-burn drama about inheritance, land and silence that asks more of the viewer than most Nigerian films dare to.
The Screen Score: Lagos Vice
A crime thriller that wears its influences on its sleeve but earns the comparison through sheer execution.
Against the word “emerging”
Nollywood has been emerging for thirty years. At some point the word stops describing an industry and starts describing who is doing…