What Exactly Is All This Sex Doing in Blood Sisters?
Blood Sisters Understands That Sex Can Tell a Story. It Just Doesn’t Always Know What Story It’s Telling.
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Features, reviews, and essays on film and TV shows from across the African continent
Blood Sisters Understands That Sex Can Tell a Story. It Just Doesn’t Always Know What Story It’s Telling.
3 weeks ago
My Father’s Shadow dual-citizenship tension isn’t an isolated conversation in African cinema. From the early 2000’s to date, there have been a select number of African titles with similar tension.
2 months ago
Intentional storytelling are the purposeful creative choices that involve a smooth blend of narrative, aesthetic style and themes in a manner that enhances meaning and overall appeal.
5 months ago
Afolabi Olalekan’s Freedom Way written and produced by Blessing Uzzi, takes a lengthy and laborious 90 minutes to drive home a single point: our lives, as humans and Nigerians, especially, are connected. Uzzi’s script assembles a varied cast to make this point: the co-founders of Easy Go Ride, Themba (Jesse Suntele), Tayo (Ogaranya), and Edi […]
11 months ago
The Yoruba people have a saying: “Sátídé ti ọ dà, àti Jímọ́h láti mọ́.” Although there are different iterations of this saying, what they loosely translate to is that tomorrow’s greatness is foreshadowed in the details of today. This often-recycled axiom captures my thoughts after watching the trailer for Akay Mason’s Red Circle which has […]
1 year ago
African societies are popular for their communal arrangements where people are bound together in close-knit units such as family, peer groups and religious gatherings. Within such systems, duties are expected and responsibilities are distributed, and the very understanding of love itself emanates from one’s commitment to these realities. This is why, love, for many of […]
7 months ago
Journeys of Singleness, a short film written, directed and edited by Barnabas Ayo-Ilekhaize, gives a hint of the distrust and dishonesty that characterises modern youth-centric relationships. It follows Ifebuche, a young lady with an arid romantic life and a job she is displeased with, whose friend introduces her to a potential interest, Gideon. Ifebuche begins […]
7 months ago
The Sundance Institute has announced 90 feature films, 54 short films, and seven episodic projects set to participate in the 2026 Sundance Film Festival curated from 11,480 submissions. Of these submissions, 4,914 were from the U.S. and 6,566 were international with works from 22 countries and territories represented in the lineup. This official selection includes […]
7 months ago
C.J “Fiery” Obasi, Abba T. Makama and Michael Omonua are names synonymous with indie filmmaking in Nigeria. In 2021, the trio’s anthology film Juju Stories premiered and won the Boccalino d’Oro prize for best film at the Locarno Film Festival. In 2016, the filmmakers met at the Ikeja City Mall and laid the foundation of […]
7 months ago
The 55th International Film Festival Rotterdam has announced its list of selected titles. African filmmakers and tiles will be having their world and international premiere at some of the festival’s fiercely competitive sections. The festival is scheduled to be held from 29 January to 8 February 2026. Playing at the Big Screen Competition is Malek […]
7 months ago
Every week, The Culture Custodian grants you an all-access backstage pass into the lives of Nollywood rock stars. You get to learn about their fascinating backgrounds, the behind-the-scenes stories, and more. This episode features cinematographer, producer and director, Nora Awolowo. When Nora Awolowo joins the late-evening Google Meet call, she is only just settling down […]
7 months ago
The horror film genre is known for jump scares, dark symbols, a tense, bizarre atmosphere enhanced with effective lighting, colour palettes and requisite sound design, and characters that often come off as strange, underdeveloped and spiritually inclined. Mooreoluwa Wright’s Keys effuses these symptoms over a deserving twenty-three minutes of running time that reflects a repugnant […]
7 months ago
Rete Poki is a regular name at the S16 Film Festival’s programming. In 2023, the filmmaker and photographer made his debut appearance at the festival with Lorem Ipsum which he co-directed with Sasha Agbontaen. In 2024, their film, Everything Lasts and Nothing End also screened at the festival. And, at the recently concluded 2025 edition […]
7 months ago
