Hands holding a round NBO Film Festival badge

Cinema for Us:
NBO Returns This October

The festival returns across Nairobi with three competitions, a landmark retrospective and more ways to encounter cinema together.

See Why

01 / 04

Why NBO Exists

Cinema for Us

Films build society. A growing Kenyan society needs films through which we can encounter one another, negotiate our shared ethos and imagine who we are becoming.

Read Our Story

Find Your Festival

View Full Programme

Two people in conversation at the festival, one wearing an NBO Film Festival shirt

Competition

Fiction Feature Competition

5 Films · Jury Award

An audience member photographs a conversation from their seat

Retrospective

Alain Gomis: Cinema to Revisit

Films · Conversation · Context

A group of filmmakers and guests standing together after a screening

Across Nairobi

Free & Community Screenings

Social Halls · City Spaces

Schedule and Tickets

Plan Your Festival

Browse by day, venue or programme. Save your choices, see what is free, and move from discovery to booking without leaving the page.

View Schedule

Children walking past Kaloleni Social Hall

Social Hall Cinema Circuit · CITY CONVOS

Cinema Across Nairobi

Free screenings, conversations and shared encounters in the social halls and public spaces that already hold Nairobi’s collective life.

Explore Across Nairobi

Cinema for Us:NBO Returns This October