Partner Spotlight: Zeitz MOCAA

Zeitz MOCAA celebrates the art of Africa and its diaspora. As a public, not-for-profit museum, it exhibits, collects, preserves, and researches contemporary African art. Listen to the architect that designed the museum, Thomas Heatherwick, on why the Zeitz MOCAA is unlike any other museum in the video above.

This month in our journal, we are spotlighting a new screening series Zeitz MOCAA launched.

In anticipation of the exhibition Turning Towards the Sun, a collaboration between AFMAC and Zeitz MOCAA, the museum is presenting the Pan-African Film Caravan in Cape Town from March–October 2026. The program highlights a range of historical and contemporary African cinematic approaches, from historical drama, new wave, and surrealism, to science fiction and docu-fiction. The selection of films feature everyday narratives of queer African life, the human condition, and cultural reclamation.

Turning Towards the Sun: Pan-African Film Caravan foregrounds voices from Africa and its diaspora, moving from a singular perspective to a multivocal one. In honouring the Pan-African tradition, the program invites a wider Cape Town audience to experience films that build on the continent's cinematic canon, and will include films by AFMAC collective members. Stories of Our Lives by Jim Chuchu as part of The Nest Collective, Dahomey by Mati Diop, and Difret by Zeresenay Berhane Mehari will screen alongside pioneering filmmaker Ousmane Sembene’s Xala and other visionary works produced on the continent throughout the year.

Inspired by cultural events such as the Pan-African Film Festival (FESPACO) (1969) and The Poetry Caravan (2000) which travelled from Dakar to Timbuktu, the program recognizes filmmaking as an important tradition used during the wave of 1960s African independence. In convening these films, Turning Towards the Sun: Pan African Film Caravan promotes filmmaking as a historical and contemporary tool for visual and cinematic agency.

Screenings will take place at Cape Town’s Labia Theatre every last Friday of the month and a communal conversation will follow each screening led by the Zeitz MOCAA curatorial team.