From 12 to 15 November 2025, Ziguinchor will host the première édition du Ziguinchor international film festival and animation (Ziffa), an event that aims to position itself as “an international festival of fiction films and a professional market”, the organizers announced in a communiqué. A new event is coming to enrich the agenda of film festivals in Senegal. The Ziguinchor international film festival and animation (Ziffa) holds its première édition du 123 au 15 novembre 2025, à Ziguinchor, an initiative carried out by the photographer, director and cultural promoter, Babacar Ba. “African films generate a growing interest on streaming platforms, attracting millions of viewers across the world. Directors receive prizes at the world’s most prestigious film festivals. It is on the strength of these assets that the project’s promoters, Ziguinchor International Film Festival and Animation (Ziffa), with at their head the photographer, producer, director and cultural promoter, Babacar Ba, intend to play their part in the promotion of 7th African art”, reads a communiqué that has reached us. Thus, for them, it is the ideal moment to contribute to this vague porteuse, to make African cinema even more desirable to a wider public and to explore this dynamic industry that is struggling for recognition on the world stage. “The Ziffa, whose first edition will be held on 12, 13, 14 and 15 November 2025 in Ziguinchor, intends to position itself as an international festival of fiction films and a professional market”, say the initiators, underlining that, through this initiative, the ambition is to maximize the cinematic potential of the region of Casamance, stimulating the development of the local cinema and the creation of a new market for the cinema. The venue of national and international tournaments. According to them, it will also “strengthen the training and employment of local talents, and propose an offer of cinema in and for the city, for all the inhabitants, and of cinephiles in the broad sense”.
Promotion and valorisation of African art: Ziguinchor offers its international film festival
