The African SmartFilm International Film Festival (ASIFF) proudly announces its 2025 Official Selection, showcasing groundbreaking films all over the world
This year’s lineup represents the most diverse, daring, and emotionally powerful selection in the festival’s history, featuring works shot entirely on smartphones, redefining what’s possible with mobile storytelling.
Spanning feature-length documentaries, intimate shorts, student films, experimental works, and socially conscious narratives, these films highlight powerful human stories of identity, resilience, culture, justice, migration, community, environmental change, and personal transformation.
From Lagos to Lisbon, Cairo to Cape Town, São Paulo to Gaza, these filmmakers use creativity and courage to capture moments that matter, proving once again that technology is only a tool, but the voice behind it is everything.



