World Movie News: The Last 24 Hours
Nigeria and Ghana head to TIFF across four programmes, Nordisk Panorama reveals its 37th lineup in Malmö, National Cinema Weekend continues its £4 run, and a belated tribute to Zombies star Carla Jeffery.
Morning all — Taking my “from around the world” title seriously, we have a properly global spread today, taking in Nollywood, the Nordics and a sad one I ought to have caught earlier in the week. Here’s what happened in the world of movies during the last 24 hours.
Nigeria and Ghana head to Toronto across four programmes: Ahead of this month’s Toronto International Film Festival, West African cinema is having a strong drive forwards, with Nigerian and Ghanaian films selected across four separate TIFF programmes this year. It’s a significant step up in visibility for both industries on one of the world’s biggest festival stages, coming in the same week Nigerian cinema also settles into a packed September theatrical slate at home, including Femi Adebayo’s comedy A Mama Deola Wedding Story and Moses Inwang’s Ordinary People among the new arrivals hitting Nigerian screens this month.
Nordisk Panorama unveils its 37th edition lineup: Over in Sweden, the Nordisk Panorama short and documentary film festival has revealed its full 2026 programme ahead of its run in Malmö from the 17th to the 22nd September. The New Nordic Voice competition features fifteen titles from across Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Iceland, including an entry from the Faroe Islands — Búi Dam’s documentary Birita — which is also up for this year’s Nordic Council Film Prize. It’s exactly the sort of smaller-scale, genuinely regional festival that rarely gets a look-in outside its own industry circles, so worth a mention here.
National Cinema Weekend rolls on: As mentioned yesterday, the UK’s National Cinema Weekend starts today with £4 tickets available across more than 530 participating cinemas, running through to tomorrow. A nice, tangible bit of good news for anyone who’s been staying away from the multiplex on cost grounds lately. There’s a lot of diverse stuff to see, as we highlighted in yesterday’s new-release-focused news article.
A belated tribute to Carla Jeffery: It’s also worth flagging, a few days late, the death of Carla Jeffery, best known for playing Bree across Disney’s Zombies film franchise and its 2024 animated spin-off, who died on the 1st aged just 33. Jeffery began acting at 12, appearing in Phat Girlz and a recurring role on Curb Your Enthusiasm before landing the role that made her a Disney Channel favourite. Tributes have poured in from her Zombies co-stars, including Milo Manheim and Chandler Kinney, both remembering her warmth as much as her talent. There is no specified cause of death as yet, but drugs and foul-play seem to have been ruled out. A genuinely sad, young loss that deserved a mention here sooner.
That’s all for today. Not strictly a part of National Cinema Weekend, but I’m excited to be going to the cinema tonight to see a special Everyman member preview of Pressure, the wartime weather epic starring Andrew Scott and Brendan Fraser. Can’t wait!
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