Through case studies of African film festivals around the world, this book explores festivals as spaces of living cultural heritage involving multiple audiences that engage with local and transnational levels of meaning. The chapters probe how flows of knowledge that arise from the African continent arrive at African-themed film festivals (both on and off the continent) and are transformed through new contexts of presentation and engagement in new locations. The chapters examine how histories and memory are contextualized and translated across geographies and historiographies. The chapters investigate potential methods of catalyzing a “transnational flow” from inception to end that involves attention to process rather than studying festivals as static cultural products with discrete and isolated categories of programming, presentation, documentation, and networking. The chapters in this book advance understanding of culturally situated views of systems and heritage as a human and transglobal preoccupation that must cross borders.