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
The tagline on the cover of the Short, About Sarah reads: a pretentious thesis on love. It’s a cheeky warning, almost like the film is winking at you before it even begins. And true to its word, it opens with that age-old, slightly corny question—do you believe in love? From there, the film wanders through […]
7 months ago
Every filmmaker has a strategy or medium with which they express their messages. For Daniel Alaka, the creative mind behind About Sarah, 2D animation suffices to capture complex human emotional experiences such as love, infatuation and heartbreak. About Sarah is one of the short films that screened in competition at this year’s edition of S16 […]
7 months ago
In Swahili, “muganga” refers to a healer, preferably a medical doctor, in this case, Dr Denis Mukwege, a humanitarian and medical practitioner who founded Panzi Hospital where he committed to the treatment of female victims of sexual violence during the armed conflicts of the 1990s in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The biographical drama, Muganga, […]
7 months ago
Martha Ehinome, known for her captivating performance as Tumi in the Showmax original series, Wura, is making her debut executive produced film with Man of Her Dreams which recently wrapped production. The production which is now in its post-production phase is billed as Martha’s first executive produced project after years embracing fictional characters from The […]
7 months ago
Nigerian filmmakers are making waves at the 2025 Red Sea Souk Project Market. The 2025 Red Sea Souk Project Market in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, is proving to be a significant international platform for Nigerian filmmakers and it suggests the country’s growing presence on the global cinema stage. Running from December 6-10, the market, a key […]
7 months ago
The Sundance Institute has announced 90 feature films and seven episodic projects set to participate in the 2026 Sundance Film Festival. This official selection includes a sparse three African titles and one Nigerian film participating at the World Cinema Dramatic Competition section. The 2026 Sundance Film Festival runs January 22–February 1, in Park City and […]
7 months ago
If anyone has truly lived in Nigerian television’s engine room, it is Fatimah Binta Gimsay. She has moved through nearly every layer of the industry: from her early days of carrying out production tasks behind the scenes to becoming one of the more distinctive voices today. She started out as a writer’s assistant, learning the […]
7 months ago
Violence against women constitutes an underreported and underaddressed global phenomenon, with the World Health Organization (WHO) saying that nearly one in three women have experienced intimate partner violence or sexual violence of any kind in their lifetime. These victims are likely to face trauma that could last a lifetime, often struggling to overcome the psychological […]
7 months ago
