16th Silicon Valley African Film Festival

Celebrating 16 years of Connecting Communities, Cultures and Continents!

Join us for a rich, experience of African cinema, culture, and creativity.

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October 9 – 12, 2025
  

2025 Official Selections

Animation

  • Ancestral Intervention / Michelle Muli / Kenya
  • Black People’s Thing / Pâmela Peregrino / Brazil
  • Blinded By The Lights / Francis Y. Brown / Ghana
  • Lore / Mary Wanjiku Waweru / Kenya
  • Nwavu, the Blind Man / João Petit Graça / Portugal
  • One Way or Another / Benny Seals / USA
  • Reach For The Stars / Silas Ese Abada / Nigeria
  • Starry Paths / Olav BABI / Benin
  • The Black Raven / Menna El-Atroush / Egypt
  • The Big sad Nairobi / Gift Kyansimire Oroni / Kenya

Documentary Feature

  • 58 Years Later (Voices of Today) / Robert Asimba Ngoge, Ras Mutabaruka / Botswana
  • Beware! / Soussaba Cissé / Mali
  • Beyond the Headlines: The NABJ Journey / James Franklin Blue III / USA
  • Disrupting Dayton / Kenan Moos, Kiyoshi Taylor / USA
  • L’Arbre de l’Authenticité / Sammy Baloji / Congo, the Democratic Republic of the
  • Loot and the Lost kingdoms of Africa / Bibi Shasore / Nigeria
  • Unfinished Business: Sunshine Anderson Documentary / Tequoia Urbina / USA

Documentary Short

  • A Divine Journey / Annette M. King, Ivanovitch Ingabire / Kenya
  • A Film Called Black: King’s Speech / Cam Be / USA
  • African Creative Class: Ghana / Amarachi Nwosu / USA
  • Beyond Olympic Glory / Shedrack Salami / Nigeria
  • Death To Life (Refugee / migrants story) / Peter Okojie / USA
  • Emerenciana / Larissa Nepomuceno / Brazil
  • From Rodeo to Polo: The First HBCU Polo Team / Kendi King / USA
  • Ghetto Mama / Onyutta Brenda / Uganda
  • House of Aama: Threads of Legacy / Jamal Ademola / USA
  • I Can’t / Magdy / Egypt
  • Lapo Chapé / Mélissandre Monatus / France
  • Manga Labe – The Stream of my Childhood / Mamadou Mouctar Diallo / Guinea
  • Masaka to Toronto / Walta Gabriel Busulwa / Uganda
  • Our Memory Skin / Edmundo U. Galicia / Mexico
  • Saddari / Timeaa mohamed ahmed / Sudan
  • Sikia (Listen) / Michael Lolly Munyore, Austin James Peck / Kenya, USA
  • Taxi to the stars / Mlingane Dube / South Africa
  • Umhlaba Wokhokho – Land of my ancestors / Nondumiso Masache / South Africa
  • Zero Violência e o Bullying / Moisés Panzu Zuane / Angola

Narrative Feature

  • Dance With Me / Romanuse Lindelani Langa / South Africa
  • Kimote / Hassan Mageye / Uganda
  • Lights Out / Enah Johnscott / Cameroon
  • Lottery Love / Mlungisi Mhlanga / South Africa
  • Megnot (Two hearts) / Abel Tekele Regasa / Ethiopia
  • Mother’s Love / Omotola Jalade Ekeinde / Nigeria
  • Nyanga / Eddie Ndhlovu, Jakov Dakovic / Zimbabwe
  • Osamede / James Kalu Omokwe / Nigeria
  • Phoenix Fury / Ifeoma Nkiruka Chukwuogo / Ghana, Nigeria
  • Soft Love / Holmes Okechukwu Awa / Nigeria
  • The Fisherman / Zoey Martinson / Ghana
  • The ReWrite / Terry Dawson / USA

Narrative Short

  • ?Enough! / Dap Paxton / USA
  • 8 Candles / Seif Ali / Egypt
  • Another Chooseday / Courage Tariro Matanda / Zimbabwe
  • Back to the theater Vox / Amina Awa Niang / Senegal
  • Bella Is Dying Maybe Next Week / Abigail Arunga, Mkaiwawi Mwakaba / Kenya
  • Belief / Christian Loubek / USA
  • Berhane “The Light” / Gebar Gebremiche, Mahelet Gezachew / USA
  • Bougainvillea / Yasir Faiz / Sudan
  • Boys & Girls / Andrew Boateng / United Kingdom
  • Bureau De Change / Chioniso Tsikisayi, Clinton Zvoushe / Zimbabwe
  • Children of diaspora / Sabrina Onana / France
  • Dear Lia / Anthony Relisa / Madagascar
  • Ekun Omi Tears of desert water / Femi Bajulaye, Emmanuel Oluwaseyi Bajulaye / Nigeria
  • Food for the Soul / Chisom Chieke / USA
  • I Can Smell a Rat / Antonious George Bassily / Egypt
  • In Her Shoes / Ella Ogechi Chikezie / Nigeria
  • Inheritance / Khaliyesa Barbara Minishi / Kenya
  • I’m a Whity / RAJAOARISON Oswald / France
  • Insanity / Alisanyukirwa Joy Matovu / Uganda
  • Mfuko the duffle bag / donny shadai, kayongo aloysius / Uganda
  • Mr. Advocate / Stacie McClam / USA
  • My Distress / N’dri Bénédicte Kouadio / Côte d’Ivoire
  • Nangul / Saffiatou Badjie / Gambia
  • Saturday / Razzaaq Boykin / USA
  • Stop Staring / ElFaisal Badr / Egypt
  • The Brittle Little Ones / Jade Andrivon, Laura Cuvillier, Clémentine Damico, Régis Raphaël Marton, Samuel Roussas / France
  • The General’s Son / Angela Onuora / Canada
  • The Girl Who Turned Pain Into Power / Maria Julia Gonsalves Crecencio / Brazil
  • The girl who wanted to fly / Tais Amordivino / Brazil
  • The Incredible Sensational Fiancée of Sèyí Àjàyí / Abbesi Akhamie / Nigeria
  • The Last Message / Seif Madbouly / Egypt
  • The Night of Abed / Anis Djaad / Algeria
  • The One Minutes Series: When Art Isn’t Life / The Critics / Netherlands
  • The Perfect Ball / Michael Metaferia / Ethiopia
  • The Routine / BAK’ Saunders / Trinidad and Tobago
  • The Thing / Fatim N’Diaye / France
  • Till Death / Yana Bille-Chung / USA
  • Time Is Money / Duran Jones / USA
  • Torn / Tamala Baldwin / USA
  • Unspoken / Karanja Ng’endo / Kenya
  • We are in need of cosmic help / Ahmed Emad / Egypt
  • What Happens Now? / Imole J.O Ladipo / USA
  • What’s Your Dream? / Jasmine Ashanti, Ajima Cole / USA
  • Will The Sun Rise / Monia Khalid Ahmed Hassan / Sudan
  • Wrong Address / John Simmons / USA

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