The second year of Open Doors’ Africa focus takes in new projects and emerging directors and producers from fest and lab winners to new propositions A Snapshot of Africa’s Upscale Film Scene Carefully curated, Open Doors 2026 provides a telling take of the range of current upscale titles coming out of Africa plus their artistic and industrial trends. Though light years from parity in Africa at large, women cineastes feature prominently at Open Doors, dominating its producers, new Open Doors Connect and directors sections. It Takes a Village, a panel at Locarno Pro on Aug. 8, will examine new investment cinema models. Africa desperately needs them, crippled by a fundamental lack of traditional national film funding incentives. Open Doors does hint, however, at some ways African cinema can go and indeed is going. Open Doors 2026 is focused on African projects, producers and directors from outside the northern Maghreb and Egypt and South Africa. Mamounata Nikièma, Pilumpiku Production, Burkina Faso
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