The Durban FilmMart Institute is a non-profit company that facilitates local and international trade and investment in African film content
Call for Applications
DFM Access
3rd Edition 2023/24
(Closed)
DFM Access
Pitch and Finance
Forum
Animation
15th Edition 2024
(Closed)
Pitch and Finance Forum
Pitch and Finance
Forum
Live Action
15th Edition 2024
(Closed)
Pitch and Finance Forum
Talents Durban
17th Edition 2024
(Closed)
Talents Durban
Jumpstart
13th Edition 2024
(Closed)
Jumpstart
2024 Results
16th Durban FilmMart
Date to be confirmed
The Institute’s annual flagship event, the Durban FilmMart, is a pan-African finance and coproduction market. Designed to create partnerships and further the development and production of African cinema, the DFM was named in UNESCO’s 2021 Film Trends in Africa Report as ‘the continent’s best film market’.
Objectives of the DFM
- Enable funding for promising projects and accelerate the financing of the participating projects through transnational cooperation
- Stimulate development and production of African content
- Encourage project collaboration between African Filmmakers from different African Countries.
- Raise the visibility of film projects from the African Continent and create networking opportunities with potential co-producers and other industry partners
Click Here for more information about the various programmatic elements featured in the Durban FilmMart.
15th Durban FilmMart
19 - 22 July 2024
The 15th Durban Filmmart theme was African Visions Unleashed: From Disruption to Accountability, and for our 15th edition we called on the industry to take action. We aiming to create a space for critical engagement and begin a new conversation around the topical issues of our current cultural moment.
To view the 2024 DFM
Industry Programme
Click Here
To review the 2024 DFM
Project Dossier
Click Here
Durban FilmMart
Africa’s Premier Co-Production and Film Finance Market
Pitch and
Finance
Forum
Talents
Durban
Industry
Programme
Year Round Programmes
DFM Access
DFMI
Business Lab
Future Mentors
Filmmart.Africa
Latest News
Durban FilmMart Institute Announces Award Winners for 2024 Projects
The 15th edition of the Durban FilmMart (DFM) has wrapped up, concluding with the presentation of the 2024 DFM Awards on Monday 22 July. The
Durban FilmMart Institute Announces the Programme’s Thematic Content for DFM 2024
The theme for DFM 2024, African Visions Unleashed: From Disruption to Accountability, reflects the urgency and necessity for change in a world where mechanisms, structures,
AFREXIMBANK CANEX DEAL ROOM AT THE 15TH DURBAN FILMMART
Saturday 20th – Sunday 21st July 2024 Afreximbank has deployed the Creative Africa Nexus Programme to facilitate the development and growth of the creative and
TALENTS DURBAN PRESS
The Wait – Review by Bob Perfect
An Uncomfortably Familiar Situation Imran Hamdulay’s short film The Wait is a deft and sharp look at modern day South Africa through the microcosm of
LEGACY: THE DECOLONIZED HISTORY OF SOUTH AFRICA – Review by Timothy Niwamanya
INTERSECTIONALITY AND RESISTANCE Decoloniality, as a school of thought and action, has been central to dismantling the vestiges of cultural, economic and psychological imperialism among
Keba, Interrupted – Review by Tony Asankomah
A Heartfelt Exploration of Grief and Responsibility “Keba, Interrupted” is a well-put-together short film by director Meja Shoba, telling quite a poignant, relatively simple story
