BENIFFEST 2026 explores the relationship between cultural identity and the journeys stories take across communities, generations and borders.
Rooted in Benue and Nigeria’s Middle Belt, BENIFFEST creates a meeting point for filmmakers, storytellers, creative professionals and audiences to explore the stories that shape us and the possibilities that emerge when those stories travel.
Through cinema, cultural expression and industry engagement, Roots & Routes invites us to consider where our stories come from, what they carry, and where they can take us.
BENIFFEST 2026: Roots & Routes.
The stories, identities, languages, histories and experiences that shape us.
The journeys through which stories reach new audiences, cross borders, inspire new work and create possibilities.
Roots & Routes invites us to consider where our stories come from, what they carry, and where they can take us.
Rooted in Benue and Nigeria’s Middle Belt, BENIFFEST creates a meeting point for filmmakers, storytellers, creative professionals and audiences. Details will be announced as they are confirmed.
A story begins in a place, a family, a language.
Memory takes shape on the page.
The story becomes moving image.
Audiences gather to see it together.
The story reaches people far from where it began.
New conversations, collaborations and work.