Festival Archive
Thirteen years of African cinema in Wales.
Since 2013, Watch Africa Film Festival has grown from a Kickstarter-funded screening tour into Wales’ home for African cinema. Every edition had its own theme, its own partners and its own films — and together they tell one story. Travel through it, chapter by chapter.
13
Editions since 2013
168
Films screened
10,000+
Viewers
Introducing Cinema Africa
South Africa @20
Young Africans
2016
Pan-Africanism
Continuing the festival’s focus on connecting diaspora and continental African narratives — examining shared identity, history, and the ties that cross borders.
Africa’s Lost Classics
Africa Against All Odds
2019
Afrofuturism
A curated short-film programme celebrating sci-fi and Afrofuturist visions — screening works including Wanuri Kahiu’s Pumzi, Neill Blomkamp’s Alive in Joburg, Kibwe Tavares’ Jonah, and Muchiri Njenga’s Kichwateli, alongside the Cameroonian feature Les Saignantes.
2020
Trans-national Cinematic Collaborations
A scaled-back edition shaped by the global pandemic, focused on cross-border digital collaboration and keeping the spirit of African cinema alive during an extraordinary moment of disruption.
Bringing Africa to Wales
Ujamaa / Ubuntu
Watch Africa @10
Re-Education on African Cinema
2026
Express Your Africa
11–13 September 2026
Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff
Moments across the editions.
Thirteen chapters down. The next one is being written now.
