Arts & culture in Nairobi and East Africa Film
NBO Film Festival 2026
Eleven days of African and diaspora cinema across four Nairobi venues, with an Alain Gomis retrospective.
About the event
The seventh NBO Film Festival, themed "Cinema for Us", runs 15-25 October. It has a fiction feature competition and two new categories: the Nick Wambugu Prize for Documentary and a short fiction competition.
There is also the festival's first filmmaker retrospective, devoted to the French-Senegalese director Alain Gomis, plus community screenings, city dialogues, filmmaker conversations and an expanded industry programme.
Some screenings are ticketed and others are free community screenings in social halls and public spaces.
Good to know
- Single screenings KES 1,000-1,500; Golden Ticket (full festival access) KES 20,000
- Some events free (RSVP required)
- Browse the schedule by day and venue on the festival site
Line-up
Alain Gomis
Organiser
Event information from
- NBO Film Festival (organiser) nbofilmfest.com
- Mookh ticket page mookh.com
- Sinema Focus announcement sinemafocus.com
Details come from the organisers' own pages and can change; please check with the organiser before you go.
