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kasala! LCA Film Festival Review

Hope is a scarce commodity in Ema Edosio’s “Kasala” – Toni Kan

Director: Ema Edosio Film title: Kasala! Year of release: 2018 Reviewer: Toni Kan Oscar winner, Antoine Fuqua, began his film career making music videos, so did Spike Jonze. Here in Nigeria, Ema Edosio has plied the same trajectory parlaying an early career making music videos alongside Clarence Peters into a filmmaking career with her debut full-length feature, Kasala which […]

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What You Have Is Not Yours: A Review of Akin Omotoso’s Vaya

Your parents, they fuck you up, wrote Philip Larkin. He could have been commenting on Akin Omotoso’s Vaya where a father manages to put two families in peril. And he isn’t even alive. The film follows several stories. There is a boy seeking to return his dead father’s body to his mother. A girl looking […]

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Women of the Civil War: A Review of Afia

The documentary Afia Attack shows the efforts of women during the Nigerian Civil War. The narratives so far are centred around men, ignoring those who had to tend children and homes left behind by men. While this is admirable in intent, the final film doesn’t quite get up to those of those lofty ideals. For […]

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Company is another word for Trouble: A Review of Frontieres

Somewhere in the middle of Frontieres, a film that takes place mostly on the road and in several countries across western Africa, three women bond over the silent fart of a male traveller. The man is asleep and never gets a chance to defend himself. The silence of the man is a reversal of cinema’s […]

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