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Sinema FocusAfricaKenyan Actress Regina Re Detained for 10 Days as Police Investigate Mother’s Murder Kenyan actress and former television presenter Regina Wambui Macharia-Gitao, popularly known as Regina Re, has been detained alongside three relatives for ten days as police investigate the suspected…

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Sinema FocusAfricaCatherine Kamau Leads New Romantic Drama ‘Love Life Nairobi’, Set to Release in 2027 (EXCLUSIVE) After a four-year absence from the screen, Catherine Kamau ( , ) stars in the new Kenyan romantic drama feature Love Life Nairobi , scheduled to premiere in 2027.

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Sinema FocusAfricaAlternativa Film Festival Expands to Africa, Opens 2027 Submissions with $120,000 in Prizes Alternativa Film Festival, the Global South film festival founded and supported by inDrive, has opened submissions for its fourth edition, which will be held in Africa for the first time.

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Sinema FocusAfricaPolice Block Screening of Kenyan Documentary ‘The People Shall’ at Kilifi Creek Festival (EXCLUSIVE) Police have blocked the screening of Kenyan documentary at the , running from 23-31 October. Speaking exclusively to Sinema Focus , co-director Mark Maina said police officers arrived at Mazingira…

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Sinema FocusAfricaMultiChoice Unveils New DStv Packages and Prices in Kenya , a Canal+ Company, has announced new DStv packages and prices in Kenya that will take effect from 5 November, terming it the company’s “the most significant DStv package refresh in years.” A…

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Our mark is 銀幕, ginmaku — the silver screen, and the same two characters in Japanese, Chinese and Korean.

I came to Tokyo at twenty-three for a summer job at a Shibuya mini-theatre and the job never quite ended. Fifteen years of festivals later I still think the only review that counts is the one the room gives you: where the laugh lands, the moment three hundred people stop moving at once, whether anybody stays for the credits.

Cinepuuulse follows Asian cinema — Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Thailand — across about a hundred and twenty sources. A good number of them are Spanish, French and Portuguese, because those countries programme this work seriously and write about it better than most of the English-language trade. Genre and art-house get the same seat here. I am not ranking them, and nothing is scored out of ten.

Each story is a headline, a short excerpt, one still and a link to the outlet that did the reporting. We never republish the piece, and the still belongs to its studio or its photographer. A Korean trade paper appears in Korean, a French review in French. We point at the work; we do not put words in anyone's mouth.

— Daren Wise, Tokyo