Discoveries from Nigeria World Cinema

Ghanaian & Nigerian diplomatic drama spill over and express through love & violence

When an event planner leaves her boyfriend behind for Los Angeles, their relationship is put to the test. Partnered with a billionaire business mogul, she finds herself further from home than ever before. Will love overcome distance?

This film is about a young woman named Kasie. Sometimes, the disappearance of the only glimmer of hope could spell the end of a dream for some people...

The story of a young immigrant couple whose love is tested by real life struggles and challenges on a foreign soil.

Every woman in Lagos, wants to be like Onajide Ibrahim - she has the perfect life. At 39 years old, she has achieved what most women twenty years older would be proud of - a flourishing career, a popular and growing small business, a loving husband and two bright and beautiful children. So why does she want to end it all?

Ovie, an ambitious woman nearing a perfect engagement, is forced to question her future when an unexpected connection with her new neighbor makes her choose between security and self-respect.

Charity believes only weak women like Sylvia, her late friend, allow men dominate them in the name of marriage. She asserts that husband and wife have equal right in the affairs of the family including domestic chores, but financial provision is the sole responsibility of a man.

In this Nigerian Movie, Dark powers have taken over a family's happiness, killing all his young children, causing grief and sorrow.

The continuing misadventures of Yetunde, a woman from an impoverished background with a penchant for telling tall tales that get her into trouble.

Part 2 Sequel to Ò Le Kù. It is the story of Ajani, an undergraduate at the University of Ibadan who is in his final year. He is under pressure from his mother to find a partner, and unwittingly finds himself in a love dilemma - dating three women simultaneously; Asake, a secondary school teacher, is his long-term girlfriend. He meets Lola, a fresher who is tall, slim, and pretty. The situation gets complicated when he meets a childhood acquaintance, who eventually takes center stage in the 'drama of love'. Asake's father badgers her to sever her relationship with Ajani but she however falls pregnant and Lola finds out and Ajani has to choose a wife under duress from his mother.

The Unexpected Repercussion that befell the people of Umueze Kingdom, having yielded to the evil practice brought by a tyrant whom the gods of the land had forbidden. The gods have to choose a young lady from birth whose destiny is set to be the doom of a rebellious kingdom

When Emeka unknowingly impregnates Linda, they're drawn into a whirlwind romance, healing old heartbreaks and starting a family. But their happiness is threatened when Linda's decision to move the family to Lagos puts everything at risk.

It is based on a true-life story from January 1516 AD, a historical event in which an African princess sacrificed her life to save her kingdom from doom and destruction against a tyrant king.

Betrayed by his uncle and sold into slavery, a young West African prince finds himself on a brutal Jamaican plantation, where a forbidden love and a looming rebellion draw him into an alliance with escaped slaves – the Maroons – forcing him to rise as the leader of a revolution that could shake the colonial world.

A young woman discovers a shocking betrothal arranged by her late parents to settle debts. Caught between a suitor she was promised to and a manipulative lover who lied to her, she must unravel a web of lies and make a life-altering choice.

A Nigerian man repeatedly rapes his teenage daughter and manipulates her to keep mum until she meets a stranger who leads her to her truth.

This story centres on man's desperation that drives belief in false gods. The fear of death leads many to seek solutions outside Godly ways. The Power given to us to Bind evil is from God and must be sincerely and righteously sought after. At the peak of demonic invasions, if God's people believe, pray and exercise their spiritual rights and authority, then all forms of evil forces shall be ceased out of their lives. Victory is always for the righteous.

A skilled young boxer and a determined father clash in a traditional Nigerian boxing match.

While rape is regarded as the most unreported crime globally, it has assumed an epidemic proportion due largely to impunity, Idara is a gruesome tale of the adverse effects of rape on an individual when the perpetrators of the crime are left unpunished.

What happens when you are torn between staying and moving on?

Alice falls in love with someone while working on a thesis on men. Her emotions go down the drain as she makes a tragic discovery on her newly-found lover. The truth lies there in the last minute.

Mammy Water is a pidgin English name for a local water goddess worshipped by the Ibibio, Ijaw, and Igbo speaking peoples of southeastern Nigeria. The water goddess traditionally gives wealth and children, compensates for hardships, and is sought in times of illness and need, especially by women. Her various cults are led, predominantly, by priestesses.

Why are Angela and Harrison are holding back their expressions of love for each other?

Knock Out Blessing is an intriguing tale about a girl named Blessing, whose ambition to achieve her dream and escape poverty, take her down a path that leads into the criminal underworld, and finally face to face with the underbelly of the Nigerian political system.

The sudden death of a patient leads the police to the doctor who refused to treat him. Investigation takes a different turn with multiple suspects on the table, making the job of these very intelligent and smart police officers difficult.

Sold as a sex slave by her father because of debts, Ella is groomed into a professional sex worker. Everything seems OK until she meets a new client, a dangerous drug lord who brings back awful memories

A black-and-white cinematic portrait of Lagos’ Jebba Street, where archival photographs and memory intertwine to reveal a shifting neighbourhood shaped by survival, creativity, and the act of seeing.

When an unscrupulous cop is fired from his post, he returns to his village to continue policing—to disastrous results.

A suspenseful and adventurous journey of a courageous black woman with the fear of rain, known as ombrophobia. As she seeks solace from her troubled past, fate intertwines her life with an enigmatic white man, torn by his own demons and on a quest for redemption.

A new Nigerian mother, Aduke, struggles to breastfeed her baby while navigating her tense relationship with her husband as well as her family’s expectations. In order to support her newborn child, she must confront her past.

One of the last celluloid films created during the rise of the Nollywood film industry. Film adaption of the homonymous novel written by Umaru Danjuma Katsina in the early 80s. Set in post-independence northern Nigeria the film traces a teenage girl’s descent into an illicit human trafficking ring, dedicated to the sexual exploitation of school girls by the country’s political rich.

A guy who does not know how to break up with his girlfriend keeps replaying the conversation in his head.

When a video of kids dancing in the rain goes viral, it brings global attention to an unlikely ballet school outside Lagos, Nigeria. Now they're preparing for the world stage.

An intenet troll will find out exactly what it means to be on the receiving end of the hate he metes on social media.

The story of two rape survivors (a gay man and a heterosexual woman) who bond after realizing they shared something in common. However, fate plays a trick on them when their perpetrator walks back into their lives.

A meeting with the family lawyer causes chaos for the Thompson family, with betrayal, infidelity and lies leading to bloody consequences.

A king has three sons, all of whom have their weaknesses. One is a rapist, another a thief, and the third a drunkard.

A Nigerian lesbian narrates her journey of self-discovery. As she takes us through her experiences, we see first-hand what it is to be homosexual in an unforgivingly homophobic society, and the total alienation that can come from being despised, ostracized and ridiculed by the ones you love. This is a story of rejection and loss, but also the powerful story of the triumph that comes with love.

The Supreme Price is a feature length documentary film that traces the evolution of the Pro-Democracy Movement in Nigeria and efforts to increase the participation of women in leadership roles. Following the annulment of her father's victory in Nigeria's Presidential Election and her mother's assassination by agents of the military dictatorship, Hafsat Abiola faces the challenge of transforming a corrupt culture of governance into a democracy capable of serving Nigeria's most marginalized population: women.

When this kinda HUSTLERS get into the CENTERSTAGE they become DARE-DEVIL wrestlers.

In 2011, Zina made Sarogua Mourning, a video installation that confronted her inability to mourn her father’s death and explored the relationship between performance and catharsis.

The video performance of the Eaten By The Heart series is represented by a 62-minute video installation featuring 12 different African and diasporic couples kissing for between 4 and 7 minutes each and a trilogy of short documentary films that explore love and heartbreak in the black diaspora.

In the deeply meditative, 40-minute video triptych Kum: Soul of the Shadow (2021), we are confronted with a magnificent ancient Banyan tree that occupies a central place in an Ogoni village, around which the community gathers to make important decisions. The tree is named “Kum” by the people that live around it. Interacting with the tree is The Invisible Boy, a figure that appears in the works of Saro-Wiwa and represents a messenger between worldly dimensions. The work is a vision of the relationship between man and tree from an interdimensional spiritual lens. A place where the susurrations of the leaves and the singing of the birds take on a new meaning and where the human breath speaks and converses with the being of the tree. Together they suggest a winged angelic force and the revelation of a psycho-spiritual ecological system, forever at work, hidden in plain sight.

Looped video from the Illicit Gin Institute studio.

The Invisible Man is a series of works made between 2014 and 2016 in Ogoniland, Zina Saro-Wiwa’s ancestral homeland and the site of one of the most catastrophic international clashes between Big Oil and indigenous farmers. Her father, writer and Nobel Nominee Ken Saro-Wiwa, was murdered by the Nigeria government for his peaceful campaigning against Shell Oil’s pollution of the beautiful farming Eden that is Ogoniland. Saro-Wiwa decided in 2013 to return to Ogoniland to make work about the region which she saw being murdered all over again with the storytelling that emerged from the troubled region that focused on and fed the endemic violence that flourished. She knew instinctively that restitution did not lie in simply reporting violent clashes or oil spills, but rather she went to Ogoniland to listen to the land and feed the stories that connected the people to their environment and celebrated their way of life.

A former teenage boxing champion returns to the ring to save his trainer’s gym, facing a rival from a different part of Lagos.

Ajadi, a weathered man shaped by years of toil, is caught in a storm while out fishing and thrown into the ocean. He drifts unconscious to awaken in an in-between state in a strange metaphysical space where the sea is calm, the sky unnatural, and a mysterious voice calls his name.

A young girl is faced with a huge change that could derail her chance at an education. With the assistance of an unlikely helper, she attempts to keep her life and future on track.

Chinny, a makeup artist, hits rock bottom when her year-long relationship ends, leaving her unemployed and homeless. She moves in with her best friend, Ifeanyi, who reluctantly takes her in and tries to help her rebuild her life. But Chinny can’t let go of her ex, Korode, spiraling into heartbreak—just as Ifeanyi’s relationship with his British girlfriend, Annie, adds tension to their friendship.

Wanting to impress the other students on campus, a young woman from an impoverished family decides to lie about her background.

Against the backdrop of Nigerian burial traditions, a widow and her three children struggle with the noise of public spectacle that isolates them in their private grief.