Vues d'Afrique

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Vues d'Afrique is an annual film festival in Montreal, Quebec. It focuses mainly on African cinema, but also includes some Canadian films about African culture. The festival began in 1985 as African Cinema Week and was known as Vues d'Afrique by the early 1990s.

Its main venue is the Cinémathèque québécoise, though films have been shown at other Montreal venues such as Concordia University, Université du Québec à Montréal, the offices of the National Film Board, Maison de la Culture Frontenac, and the Centre Pierre Péladeau. The festival has also sometimes screened films in other Quebec cities and in Ottawa.

Vues d'Afrique presents both film and television projects and also highlights African culture through events like an African food fair, dance, music, art, and literature. In 2020, the festival was held online due to the COVID-19 pandemic, streamed on TV5 Québec Canada.