All articles by Chrystel Oloukoï
Dakan, 25 years after: the queer landmark that haunts African film
Causing uproar in Guinea 25 years ago, Dakan has been hailed as the first West African film to tackle homosexuality. Yet its director would never make another movie, and its legacy has been a warning for other filmmakers.
By Chrystel Oloukoï
Bantú Mama looks at the African diaspora through a contemporary lens
By Chrystel Oloukoï
6 African films not to miss at the LFF
By Chrystel Oloukoï
Where to begin with Ousmane Sembène
By Chrystel Oloukoï
A year of lockdown: the screen culture that got us through it
By Henry Barnes, Whelan Barzey and others
Life before the Moomins: behind the scenes of a new biopic of creator Tove Jansson
By Chrystel Oloukoï
Five recommendations at BFI Flare 2021
By Chrystel Oloukoï
The Watermelon Woman at 25: the Black lesbian classic that wears its brilliance lightly
By Chrystel Oloukoï
MLK/FBI narrows America’s race struggles to fit its spotlight
By Chrystel Oloukoï
Lovers Rock finds respite and rapture in a Black London house party
By Chrystel Oloukoï
Eyimofe (This Is My Desire) charts broken dreams of migration in an indomitable Lagos
By Chrystel Oloukoï
Time audio review: How Garrett Bradley’s temporal symphony clocks the cruelty of mass incarceration
By Chrystel Oloukoï