CINEFEMFEST is much more than a festival in the traditional sense of the term. It is unique in its genre in that it tries to research, analyze and celebrate the feminist significance of the films selected. In other words, CINEFEMFEST strives to use these films produced by African feminists as popular education tool to promote gender equality in the direction of greater societal transformation in Africa. The feminist dimension is important in the sense that a film is not in itself feminist, or committed, unless its author openly claims it. However, films, through the lens their introduce, can have a distinctive and important educational or awareness-raising significance. In this, CINEFEMFEST, in being a festival where we show films, a symposium where we produce research and articulate scientific communications on films and a benevolent space for exchanges and networking between different profiles (artists and cultural activists and actors, researchers, political decision-makers, journalists, members of government or the private sector) stand out from what has been done so far. Ultimately, CINEFEMFEST goes beyond a festival that centres the theme of ‘Women & cinema' : it combines the celebration of relevant films made by Africans with research-action, hence its name : ‘The African Feminist Film and Research Festival' or in Wolof: Gëstu Naataal i Jigeen. The multidisciplinary profile of the CINEFEMFEST team is a great asset, going in the direction of including perspectives from the social sciences and humanities, art and communication studies.