Overview
- Locarno Open Doors announced the 2026 Africa selection Monday, naming six feature projects, six producers and five directors for its industry and talent program running inside the Locarno Film Festival.
- Selected feature projects span documentary, fiction and experimental work and include Too Much Music, a portrait of Ghanaian keyboardist Kiki Gyan, Chapa 100 from Mozambique–South Africa, and I Live in V. I. from Nigeria.
- The Producers strand brings six producers from across the continent, including Mamounata Nikiema, Natasha Craveiro and Rua Osman, to strengthen cross‑border production networks and career development.
- Five directors — Fagamou Fama Ndiaye, Rediet Haddis Yalew, Pocas Pascoal, Judith Nini Kibinge and Ariel Añez — will present shorts in the Open Doors Screenings, with the full screenings lineup to be published on July 1.
- Open Doors runs Aug. 5–10 inside the festival, features workshops, mentoring and industry meetings, and adds new partner awards such as the EAVE Marketing Workshop scholarship (€4,000) and the AFP Critics Prize to boost marketing, press coverage and co‑production opportunities.