The 2025 Kitale Film Week Awards Nominees have just been announced. A cocktail of African film excellence, from Cameroon to Cote D’Ivoire. Here is the full nominees list
BEST ANIMATED FILM
- Fractured (2024) Uganda
- Kintu (2024) Uganda
- Counterpunch (2024) Kenya, Uganda
- Death Valley (2023) Kenya
- Gas (2024) Kenya
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
- A Country Called Ghana (2025) Ghana, Nigeria
- Nawi (2024) Kenya
- Kismet (2024) Cameroon
- Hanami (2024) Cape Verde
- Present Past (2024) Uganda
- BODA Love (2024) Kenya
BEST EDITING
- Nawi (2024) Kenya
- Kismet (2024) Cameroon
- Hanami (2024) Cape Verde
- Le Fétiche (2023) Cote D’Ivoire
- Maria (2024) Uganda
- Mission Xylara (2024) Uganda
BEST FEATURE FILM
- Hanami (2024) Cape Verde
- Nawi (2024) Kenya
- BODA Love (2024) Kenya
- Kismet (2024) Cameroon
- A Country Called Ghana (2024) Ghana, Nigeria
- 2 ASUNDER (2024) Kenya
BEST SCREENPLAY
- Otis Janam (2024) Kenya
- Le Fétiche (2023) Cote D’Ivoire
- BODA Love (2024) Kenya
- The Passenger (2023) Uganda
- A Country Called Ghana (2024) Ghana, Nigeria
- Hanami (2024) Cape Verde
BEST SHORT FILM
- Le Fétiche (2023) Cote D’Ivoire
- I too, Crave death (2024) Nigeria
- Grogans Lodge (2023) Kenya
- Unasemaje? (2024) Tanzania
- 1992 (2024) Kenya
- Fractured (2024) Uganda
BEST DOCUMENTARY
- Afrikki (2024) Senegal
- Descendants of Broken Heroes (2024) Kenya
- The Destiny of a Truck Driver (2024) Burkina Faso
- Our Land, Our Freedom (2024) Kenya
- Unyagoni: Bahati’s Sex Education Journey (2024) Kenya
- Limo on the Run (2024) Kenya
EMERGING FILMMAKER AWARD
- Brian Vons Mukisa – Emunyenye (2024) Uganda
- Josephine Mary Namirembe – Fractured (2024) Uganda
- ‘Che Messiah – Endless Loop (2023) Nigeria
- Nodryn Evanci Kabuye – Half Chocolate Half Vanilla (2024) Uganda
- Abu-Bakr S. Adamu & Oluwatimilehin Adejumo – Salamatu’s Rhapsody (2024) Nigeria
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