Portal:African cinema/Selected anniversaries/23

Countries are starting to submit nominations to the 97th Academy Academy Awards for Best International Feature Film. African submissions include:

Algeria’s Algiers by writer-director Chakib Taleb-Bendiab which takes place during the Algerian Civil War and centers around the investigation of a young girl’s kidnapping
Egypt’s Flight 404 by Hani Khalifa and starring Mona Zaki as a woman whose pilgrimage to Mecca is suddenly interrupted with an emergency that requires her to seek funds from people from her shady past.
Kenya’s Nawi directed by Kenyans Vallentine Chelluget and Apuu Mourine alongside Kevin Schmutzler and Toby Schmutzler from Germany, about a young girl from northwestern rural Kenya who enters a writing competition.
Morocco’s Everybody Loves Touda by Nabil Ayouch about a young singer (Nisrin Erradi) who dreams of becoming a traditional Moroccan folk singer and moving to Casablanca for greater recognition and a better life for her son.
Senegal’s Dahomey by Mati Diop. The film, winner of the 74th Berlin International Film Festival top prize, the Golden Bear, follows the journey of 26 plundered royal treasures from the Kingdom of Dahomey and their return from France to Benin.

The Nigerian Minister of Art, Culture and the Creative Economy, Hannatu Musa Musawa unveiled the government's plan to generate $100 billion and create over two million jobs from Nigeria’s creative economy by 2030. According to the National Bureau of Statistics, Nigeria’s creative economy contributed $5 billion, or just 1.2% to Nigeria’s GDP in 2022.