With France taking centre stage as FAME Week Africa’s 2026 Destination Focus, French cinema steps into the spotlight with the African Premiere of the highly anticipated Le Fantôme de l’Opéra (The Phantom of the Opera).

Directed by Alexandre Castagnetti the film brings Gaston Leroux’s iconic story into present-day Paris. The story follows Anastasia, an 18-year-old dancer who arrives in Paris dreaming of joining the prestigious Opéra Garnier. While rehearsing Orpheus, a supposedly cursed opera said to have been composed by the Phantom, she is drawn to a mysterious pianist. As opening night approaches, strange accidents and unsettling discoveries blur the line between reality and the supernatural, pulling her into an impossible love story.

FAME Week Africa will host the premiere screening of the first episode of 100 Ways to Stay Single in Lagos, an MTN One TV Original comedy series. Created by Mimi Bartels, Co-Founder and Director of Creative and Productions at Anakle Films, the series follows a young woman who moves from Abuja to Lagos to stay with her childhood friend, JT. She is quickly thrown into the unpredictable world of friendship, dating and modern relationships. Surrounded by friends with strong opinions about love she discovers that navigating romance in Lagos comes with its own rules, complications and surprises.

Attendees will get a first look at the series with the premiere of Episode One, followed by an opportunity to hear directly from the team behind the show.

Martyrs is a Johannesburg-set action series built independently by The People’s Republic of Entertainment (PRE), outside the traditional financing model.

Set in the near future, the series follows detectives Lupita and Rian as a new drug begins to reshape Johannesburg's criminal underworld, drawing them into a conflict involving organised crime, private military forces and those determined to control the new order.

The first episode was self-funded and produced independently by the PRE team, who have taken the project from concept and production through to building its audience and bringing it into the market.

At FAME Week Africa, the team will premiere the first episode.