Current Issue

Table of Contents

Tribute

• A Tribute to Mbye Cham (1947-2025)
  - Beti Ellerson

Call for Close-Up Submissions

• Sinners (2025): Critical Approaches to Ryan Coogler's Groundbreaking Black Vampiric Horror Film
• Beyond the Text: New Cinema Histories in the Caribbean

In Focus

• The Future of African Filmmaking: A Roundtable Discussion
  - Akin Adeṣọkan and Michael T. Martin

Article

• Filming Precarious Subjects: A Conversation with Amandine Gay and Enrico Bartolucci
  - Jimia Boutouba

CLOSE-UP: Sambizanga: Aesthetics and Politics in Sarah Maldoror's Film

• Sambizanga (1972): Aesthetics and Politics in Sarah Maldoror's Film: An Introduction
  - Gust Burns
• Sambizanga Unfolded: Nationality, Translation, and Feminism in a Revolutionary Film
  - Sofia Afonso Lopes
• Sambizanga: The Thin Green Line Between Canons and Revolutions
  - Jennifer Blaylock
• Anticolonial Public Service? Swedish Television and the Funding of Sambizanga
  - Christian Rossipal
• Aesthetics of Liberation: Carceral Intimacies in Sarah Maldoror's Sambizanga
  - Dineo Maine
• On Screening Sambizanga in Lagos: A Conversation by the Monangambee Film Collective
  - Alicia Abieyuwa Bergamelli, Chrystel Oloukoï, Esé Emmanuel
• Reflections on Sarah Maldoror's Sambizanga: An Interview with Annouchka de Andrade
  - Gust Burns

CLOSE-UP: Revisiting Sara Gómez

• Revisiting Sara Gómez: An Introduction
  - Jamie Ann Rogers
• Agnès Varda, Sara Gómez, and the Communist Semidocumentary
  - Julia Alekseyeva
• Reviving Gestures and Insect Life in the Films of Sara Gómez: Ethical and Aesthetic Issues of Digital Restoration
  - Rebecca Gordon

African Women in Cinema Dossier

• "Faire boutique": Reframing Safi Faye's place in Petit à Petit by Jean Rouch
  - Beti Ellerson

Olivier Barlet Dossier

• The Sembène and Vieyra Archives in Bloomington: An Interview with Alain Sembène, Jacques Vieyra, and Stéphan Vieyra
  - Olivier Barlet