AFRIFF REVIEW: Walking with Shadows
On the night Adrian, the protagonist of Walking With Shadows, gets thrown out of the house by his wife, he finds his way to a guy he used to know.…
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November 5, 2019
AFRIFF REVIEW: The Man who cuts Tattoos
An interesting juxtaposition lies at the start of Michael Omonua’s Osiwu (The Man who Cuts Tattoos). In an Edo village, a woman is told she needs to undergo a process…
November 5, 2019
AFRIFF REVIEWS: The Gold Coast Lounge
Pascal Aka’s The Gold Coast Lounge works the trend, embedding a Ghanian crime story within the film noir style of 1940s Hollywood. It adds an authentic Africanness to the dreamy…
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November 5, 2019
AFRIFF REVIEW: The Ghost and the House of Truth
If the law is slow to act, would you take matters into your hands? That is the question at the heart of Akin Omotoso’s The Ghost and the House of…
November 5, 2019
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AFRIFF REVIEWS: Rattlesnakes
The film is based on Graham Farrow’s acclaimed stage play of the same title and written and directed by Ghanian-British director, Julius Amedume. It won the Best Film by an…
November 5, 2019
AFRIFF REVIEW: Our Lady of the Nile
A girl named Gloriosa sees her mate Virginia stealing a bit of sugar and she makes an oblique reference to the theft in company of other girls. The accused then…
November 5, 2019
AFRIFF REVIEWS: Nigeria’s Lost Generation
“We had a good life, there was no terror or war,” says Fatima Adam, a Boko Haram abductee who escaped after five years She represents the core message of this…
November 5, 2019
AFRIFF REVIEWS: Knuckle City
Tragedy, Arthur Miller wrote seventy years ago, is the consequence of a man’s total compulsion to evaluate himself justly. Nigerian comedians who insist on acting careers might do well to…
November 5, 2019
AFRIFF Reviews: For Sama
“We’re overthrowing Bashar even if only on the walls. We’re the free students of Aleppo.” - A Syrian student Even if you are apathetic to the news, chances are you…
November 5, 2019
AFRIFF REVIEWS: Dying for Gold
A Durban night. Five black men are crammed into an Uber. At their destination, craft beer, burgers and a multiracial advance company. Still to come, multiracial stragglers. The Uber is…
November 5, 2019