The 2026 nominees reveal flaws in the award system, from category design and jury structure to controversial public vote.

An unflinching account of Kenya’s year-long uprising that defined 2024.

In this hybrid documentary directed by five filmmakers, memory and imagination converge to rebuild a city’s identity.

Ultimately, the film feels like both recognition and reconciliation, bridging the distance between generations.

This documentary explores how brilliant minds from Global South countries like Kenya power the billion-dollar ghostwriting industry.

The Kalasha Awards 2025 will be announced soon, KFC says.

This stage play is a witty, avant-garde Kenyan comedy about love, crime, and chaos.

Kicking off with thrill and action, the show loses momentum, ultimately weighed down by overused crime tropes and predictable storytelling.

This piece examines the cost of censorship on banned Kenyan films, and on emerging filmmakers yearning to tell bold stories.

After she falls for an internet romance scam, love blossoms between a lonely British woman and a boda boda driver in Nairobi.

With films like 'Kifungo', Kenyan filmmaker Voline Ogutu is exploring untapped genres in Kenya while tackling human and relatable stories.

From the producers of 'Justice Served' and 'Fatal Seduction', 'Soon Comes Night' follows a former freedom fighter turned heist king.

The actor gives a multi-layered, scene-stealing performance as the immutable thug Castro in Tosh Gitonga's musical drama series on Netflix.

From 'Kanairo' to 'Act of Love', here are five Kenyan short films to add to your watchlist.

The Film Industry Satellite Account aims to estimate the Kenyan film industry's contribution to the country’s overall GDP.

Pulling no punches, this play is full of sass and feminine pulchritude, weaponised brutally and wonderfully against all the evils of patriarchy.

Showmax contemporary Western series 'Outlaws' is a show that will entertain many, and dazzle fans of telenovelas but bore those of Westerns.

To build profitability, the Kenyan film industry must really work towards winning the audience and growing a strong cinema culture.

Marking Daudi Anguka’s feature directorial debut, Mvera is a triumph for Kenyan cinema, and deservedly our official entry to Oscars 2024.

As the first Nigerian title to rank number one globally on Netflix, this film is a triumph for Nollywood, and for Africa, despite its flaws.

A wonderfully made documentary about a rather questionable experiment conducted in a small rural village in Western Kenya.

This South African historical epic drama is an ambitious project that transcends entertainment while having it as top priority.

There isn’t much to be said about a show that doesn’t notice itself making fun of itself.

A mafia film strongly rooted in the Nigerian climate that doesn't try to reinvent itself like every gangster flick post-The Godfather.

'Safari' is a tear-jerking tale that embraces simple virtues that seem to have been forgotten by modern cinema and the modern world.

Kenya's 'Crime and Justice' lacks the very thing that elevates 'Lagos' - authenticity, which makes one wonder if it was really made for us.

Just 'Hamlet' set in Kenya, sprinkled in with the reliable trope of twentieth century African pseudo-activism.

'Married to Work' is the latest Pan-African title on Netflix that leaves your memory as quickly as it enters it.

Somehow, despite the clear degeneration of plot, 'Mpakani' manages to hold ones interest vaguely to the very end.

Blood & Water and Far From Home both bear similarities to the Spanish hit Elite. But who did it better?

It wasn't a very complex premise they were working with, and the show's laziness attempted to make it even less complex.

Much progress is needed, and with the new categories, much progress has clearly been made.

'Nafsi' starts off as a truly warm story about friendship before it evolves into a dark tale of double cross without feeling like two movies.

Every single stage of this production seems to have been confused, or rushing it, or doing it for the money.

The cast do their best with that they're offered, which just happens to be oftentimes, not good enough.

'Nairobi Half Life' is our omega, our first nuclear explosion of cinematic expression, and a distinctly Kenyan addition to the crime genre.

This show is far too textbook, far too tame, far too indulgent, meandering, predictable and far too boring. 

Chris is an amalgam of Professor Higgins and Caligula, an intelligent monster, and getting into his character was a form of catharsis.

A few quirky moments here and there, a few interesting shots, but ultimately 'Look Both Ways' is a very tame and harmless film.

Audiences simply aren’t treated often enough to this level of gloss and polish. Because of that, even flaws appear as charming quirks to us. 

What works in this show is most of it; and any elements that don’t, hardly seem to matter, if they exist at all in the...

Melissa Kiplagat chats to Churchill Osimbo about her days in school, starring in 'Country Queen' and more.

What the filmmakers got right were the ideas and themes, and where they failed, were the devilish details in these ideas and themes.

A conventional story told in an even more conventional way, a stage play with no illusion, no poetry, and no wonder.

'Click Click Bang' can be fun when given to it completely, the only problem is, it seems to be intent on preventing one from doing...