Panafricana, the Rome pan-African film festival, is currently underway and will continue until Sun 9 April, showing feature films and documentaries by established and emerging African directors. Teatro Palladium, Piazza B. Romano 8, and Cinema Trevi Cineteca Nazionale, Vicolo del Puttarello 25, www.panafricana.it.

The Rome Independent Film Festival (RIFF) will show 75 films, shorts and documentaries selected from over 1,000 works from 70 countries dedicated to the theme of cinema beyond borders at the Embassy Cinema, Via Stoppani 7, 7-14 April. For more information tel. 0645425050 or see www.riff.it.