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Paris gets a taste of Nigeria’s film industry on Wednesday with the start of the NollywoodWeek festival, with movies exploring love, family and duty, shorts and documentaries. Paris gets a taste of Nigeria’s film industry on Wednesday with the start of the NollywoodWeek festival, with movies exploring love, family and duty, shorts and documentaries. Now in its 13th...
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- Paris gets a taste of Nigeria’s film industry on Wednesday with the start of the NollywoodWeek festival, with movies exploring love, family and duty, shorts and documentaries.
- Now in its 13th edition, the NOW festival this week showcases films not only from Nigeria’s Nollywood but also Ghanaian, Kenyan and Senegalese productions and filmmakers from the African diaspora.“With my partners, we came to the realisation that a city like Paris just could not ignore the cultural phenomenon that Nollywood had become,” co-founder Serge Noukoue told AFP about the festival, which began in 2013.
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Paris gets a taste of Nigeria’s film industry on Wednesday with the start of the NollywoodWeek festival, with movies exploring love, family and duty, shorts and documentaries. Paris gets a taste of Nigeria’s film industry on Wednesday with the start of the NollywoodWeek festival, with movies exploring love, family and duty, shorts and documentaries. Now in its 13th...
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May 13, 2026
