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Celebrating Black, African & diaspora stories. Jali Film Weekender returns 28 October - 1 November 2026 www.jalicollective.co.uk

Jali Collective was founded in 2025 by three core members – Tomiwa Folorunso, Isabel Moura Mendes and Carmen Thompson. Each are long-standing producers, programmers and cultural organisers with deep roots in the film, festival and arts sectors in Edinburgh, Scotland and beyond.

18/10/2026

International guests attending their UK Premieres at Jali Film Weekender ⭐️

Our Digital Communications Coordinator Deborah Mattaka ( ) talks us through the international filmmakers joining for screenings, Q&As, masterclasses, and discussions throughout our programme!

⭐️Dear Ajayi, 28 October, Damilola Orimogunje, alongside cast and crew and
⭐️The Woman Who Poked the Leopard, 29 October, Rosie Motene joins from South Africa,
⭐️My Semba, 29 October, Ery Claver,
⭐️The Tropic Sun and His Eyes, 29 October, Elisee

More info & link to tickets in bio.

16/10/2026

Programme Highlight 🔮 THE WIZARD OF KITUI PRESENTS: HEART, FORTUNE & POWER, A FORTUNE-TELLING EXPERIENCE (Walid_Kilonzi )  Thu 29 Oct - Sun 1 Nov, 11:00 - 18:00 daily, Traverse Theatre  
A short mixed-reality fortune-telling experience in which a participant discovers a mysterious poster advertising the visiting Wizard from Kitui. Guided through a ritual, they choose the matter troubling them and are transported into a private consultation. What begins as an encounter with mysticism and prophecy gradually shifts into something more revealing while introducing a larger world still to come. 
Part of the Extended Reality (XR) Exhibition, which will run alongside Jali Film Weekender screenings and events at Traverse Theatre / Saltire Court. The XR exhibition will be free to access during the festival, but space may be limited.   More info on link in bio. 

16/10/2026

Programme Highlight 🔮 THE WIZARD OF KITUI PRESENTS: HEART, FORTUNE & POWER, A FORTUNE-TELLING EXPERIENCE (Walid_Kilonzi )

Thu 29 Oct - Sun 1 Nov, 11:00 - 18:00 daily, Traverse Theatre

A short mixed-reality fortune-telling experience in which a participant discovers a mysterious poster advertising the visiting Wizard from Kitui. Guided through a ritual, they choose the matter troubling them and are transported into a private consultation. What begins as an encounter with mysticism and prophecy gradually shifts into something more revealing while introducing a larger world still to come.

Part of the Extended Reality (XR) Exhibition, which will run alongside Jali Film Weekender screenings and events at Traverse Theatre / Saltire Court.

The XR exhibition will be free to access during the festival, but space may be limited.

More info on link in bio.

16/10/2026

Programme Highlight 🦎 HONME (tondji )  Thu 29 Oct - Sun 1 Nov, 11:00 - 18:00 daily, Traverse Theatre   A virtual reality (VR) experience that makes you embody the spirit of King Béhanzin, entrusted with blessing royal relics for the enthronement of one of his descendants. As you navigate the sacred palace, you witness the blending of past and present, where once stolen artifacts regain their power, and the inner voice of King Béhanzin, full of nostalgia, guides your steps. The journey unveils a forgotten legacy, restoring the kingdom’s soul and ensuring its rightful successor ascends the throne.  
Part of the Extended Reality (XR) Exhibition, which will run alongside Jali Film Weekender screenings and events at Traverse Theatre / Saltire Court. The XR exhibition will be free to access during the festival, but space may be limited.

More info on link in bio. 

16/10/2026

Programme Highlight 🐍BLACKSTAR SANCTUARY (Marques Redd, PhD , Mikael Owunna )  Thu 29 Oct - Sun 1 Nov, 11:00 - 18:00 daily, Traverse Theatre   A virtual reality (VR) experience that immerses users in a world grounded in q***r African spiritual and cosmological traditions. Upon donning a VR headset, users are transported to ancient Egypt, where they are welcomed by the Rainbow Serpent, a mythical figure who serves as a guide. Following the Serpent’s path, users explore a vast temple complex adorned with towering sculptures of 16 q***r African deities, each embodying a unique facet of divinity, and visit the tomb of Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep, the earliest recorded same-sex couple in human history, dating back to 2500 BCE. As users navigate the temple’s sacred spaces, they undergo a ritual of transformation and rebirth, watched over by deities and ancestors.  
Part of the Extended Reality (XR) Exhibition, which will run alongside Jali Film Weekender screenings and events at Traverse Theatre / Saltire Court. The XR exhibition will be free to access during the festival, but space may be limited.

More info on link in bio. 

15/10/2026

Programme Highlight 🌬️Closing Night: HOUSE OF THE WIND (dir. )

Sun 1 Nov, 20:30 Filmhouse Edinburgh

This year’s Weekender will close with Auguste Bernard Kouemo Yanghu’s ‘House of the Wind’, which recently had its world premiere at Venice Film Festival and won the Orizzonti special jury prize and Luigi De Laurentiis award for debut film.

Josette (80) lives alone in Yaoundé, Cameroon. All her children have left for the West. She encourages them to build houses in Cameroon, a ploy to bring them back to her. But the unexpected bond she forms with Sarah, a young woman from her neighborhood, shatters everything she has built her life on: her family, her responsibilities, and her hopes.

Link to tickets in bio.

With support from Screen Scotland & Film Hub Scotland

15/10/2026

Programme Highlight 🌫️RAIN IN AUGUST (dir. Ashley Röttjers )

Sun 1 Nov, 20:30 Filmhouse Edinburgh , screened before HOUSE OF THE WIND.

In a world where digital contact has replaced genuine human connection, a young Black woman struggling with her deteriorating mental health must confront the silence between her and her mother.

Link to tickets in bio.

With support from Screen Scotland & Film Hub Scotland

15/10/2026

14/10/2026

Jali Film Weekender welcomes our lineup of international filmmakers and artists joining us in Edinburgh in two weeks! Catch them at screenings, Q&As, masterclasses and discussions throughout the festival.

⭐️Opening the Festival
DEAR AJAYI writer, director and producer , alongside cast member and producers and , will join from Nigeria for the film’s UK premiere on 28 October.

THE WOMAN WHO POKED THE LEOPARD producer joins from South Africa for its UK premiere on 29 October, in partnership with

Angolan filmmaker from will lead a masterclass on 29 October, and will take part in Q&A sessions for the collective’s films throughout the festival as part of our Spotlight programme.

THE TROPIC SUN AND HIS EYES writer, director and producer will take part in a Q&A following the UK premiere on 29 October.

MAGMA director will join for its Scottish premiere on 1 November, .mkv the UK Premiere of short film GLASS BRICKS on 31 October + many more speakers and guests 💫

More info & link to tickets in bio.

With support from & .

13/10/2026

Programme Highlight 🐝 What Calls Us Has Travelled Far: THE BOYS AND THE BEES (dir. arielle knight )

Sun 1 Nov, 18:00 Filmhouse Edinburgh

A year in the life of a Black family on a small farm in rural Georgia. Through a patient, vérité lens, the film moves at the pace of two young boys as they wander fields, tend hives and grow in their relationship with the land around them. Their parents, Eliza and Nehemiah Ray, set out to reimagine Black family life, rooting it in the wisdom of the natural world.

The film is screening as part of ‘What Calls Us Has Travelled Far’, a short film programme that explores the many forms devotion can take and the journeys it sets in motion.

Link to tickets in bio.

With support from Screen Scotland & Film Hub Scotland

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