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NollywoodWeek: African Cinema Takes Paris | May 7–11
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NollywoodWeek's 13th edition brings five days of pan-African cinema to Paris, with films from Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, Senegal, and beyond. Your Paris insider guide to the screenings worth prioritising — and why this festival has become a genuine fixture in the city's cultural calendar.
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African cinema is in Paris this week, and it's asking European audiences to update what they think they know. NollywoodWeek opens its thirteenth edition today, running through May eleventh, with five days of films from Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, Senegal, and beyond.
The lineup this year reflects how far the industry's range has stretched. East West Love is a Nigeria-Kenya romance that crosses two distinct filmmaking cultures within the same story.
The festival was launched in two thousand thirteen by co-founder Serge Noukoue with a clear strategic intent: reposition Nollywood not as a curiosity but as a mature filmmaking industry with its own aesthetic logic and commercial weight. Paris was a deliberate choice.
A practical note, because this matters if you're trying to plan around it. Specific venue locations and showtimes aren't confirmed in what's publicly available right now, and ticket availability details are similarly thin.
The key implication of a festival like this, running for thirteen consecutive years in the same city, is that it's no longer making a case for permission. It's establishing a fixture.
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