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AFRIFF 2023

Africans for Africa

Building Bridges

Hallmark Film Festival

Africa International Film Festival


Where Dreams Takes Flight.

Indigenous for Global


The Africa International Film Festival (AFRIFF) is an International film showcase in Nigeria’s biggest city

International Film Festival


Our vision is to continue to organically the biggest showcase platform for African films and filmmakers.

Film Festival


“Indigenous for Global” is this year’s theme, it is designed to influence global perspectives of the African films and story telling.

AFRIFF 2023
Africans for Africa
Building Bridges
Hallmark Film Festival

About AFRIFF

The Africa International Film Festival (AFRIFF) is an International film showcase in Nigeria’s biggest city, Lagos. It presents a complete immersion into the world of film making with participation from all over Africa and the Diaspora.

Founded in 2010 by Ms Chioma Ude, an ardent film lover and entrepreneur, the festival is positioned to be the biggest annual appointment for African filmmakers in the region, celebrating the best African films and stories.

Our programming is themed around African films, filmmakers and African cinematic impulses making the rounds in the international film circuit in categories such as feature, shorts, student shorts, documentary and animation.

Our Vision

Our vision is to organically be the biggest showcase platform for African films and filmmakers. To use cinema to create value for our youth and create a “skills” revolution that will immensely impact the economic horizon in Africa.

In the last decade, AFRIFF has imparted positively to the huge success of films and film practitioners in Africa while consistently training new talents towards consistent growth for the near future.

Value Proposition For Partnership

To be part of the new soft power that will drive the African economy while your brand is associated with providing a Tangible and measurable impact and support to the Africa film industry.

Opportunity to be part of the content possibilities, publicity, spectacles, branding benefits this hallmark event provides.

Facilitate film industry engagements to promote Creative businesses and develop business interests and opportunities in the local film industry as it impacts your brand. AFRIFF provides unique target specific engagement opportunities through our programmes to connect with producers, directors, actors and film professionals etc.

To be part of the new soft power that will drive the African economy while your brand is associated with providing a Tangible and measurable impact and support to the Africa film industry.

Theme: INDIGENOUS FOR GLOBAL 2.0

“The Africa International Film Festival in 2023”

AFRIFF is an international film showcase that presents an immersion into the world of filmmaking, with participation from all over Africa and the diaspora. AFRIFF is positioned as the largest annual appointment for African filmmakers in the region, celebrating the best African films and stories for 11 years and counting.

AFRIFF 12 is a deliberate intervention to foster valuable exchanges of ideas, production connections and business relationships that deliver value, build capacity and create wealth. It has leveraged its networks to attain strategic relevance in the African screen sector which, has catalyzed the demand from local and international film stakeholders for AFRIFF to lead in the identification of sector specific deficiencies, and in the implementation of evidence-based interventions across the continent.