BlackStar Film Festival’s 15th edition will present several films from Africa and its diasporas, running from 6–9 August 2026 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with selected films also available online internationally. Among the feature-length: • Haile Gerima’s 623-minute, five-part “Black Lions — Roman Wolves” examines Ethiopia’s resistance to Italy’s 1935 invasion. • Dammy Twitch’s 110-minute Nigerian feature “Call of My Life” follows a call-centre employee whose conversation with a customer develops into an unexpected relationship. • Ique Langa’s Mozambique–South Africa production “The Prophet” concerns a pastor who seeks help from obscure powers while struggling with his faith. • Meriem Bennani and Orian Barki’s animated feature “Bouchra” follows a queer Moroccan jackal living in New York whose difficult conversations with her mother in Casablanca begin shaping her first film. • Nolitha Refilwe Mkulisi’s South Africa–Germany production “Let Them Be Seen” observes daily life, belief and communal gathering in Sterkspruit, a town in South Africa’s Eastern Cape province. • Jason Jacobs and Devon Delmar’s “Variations on a Theme” follows an elderly goat herder in South Africa’s Namaqualand region confronting wartime history, financial fraud and pressure from her family. The short-form programme includes Mo Harawe’s “Whispers of a Burning Scent,” Fatima Wardy’s “White Musk,” Naishe Nyamubaya’s “God Sleeps on Sundays,” Ramla Ali and Richard A. Moore’s “How to Hide It,” Abdou Cissé’s “Authors of the Estate,” Cherish Oteka’s “Free Lyric,” Precious Wura Alabi’s “To Run Is to Return,” Fanta Sylla’s “The Aura,” Chiemeka Offor’s “Nwanne M Nwaanyị,” Lade Tinubu’s “Voicemail” and Meena Nanji’s “An Afternoon with a Gnawa.” The full 2026 program lineup includes 91 films from more than 30 countries. For more: blackstarprojects.org/ #BlackStarFilmFestival #AfricanCinema #AfricanDiasporaFilm #BlackStar2026