Film And Tv

Features, reviews, and essays on film and TV shows from across the African continent

My Life In Nollywood: Emmanuel Igbekele Odihiri

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, editor and colorist, Emmanuel Igbekele Odihiri. Emmanuel Odihiri grew up in the 90s  Ikotun, Lagos, living with his grandmother in […]

Adedamola Adedayo

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12 months ago

My Life In Nollywood: Emmanuel Igbekele Odihiri

FAME Week Africa Students Film Showcase 2025: Oliver Boje & Mila Nieman’s “Detour” Experiments Dangerously with Cross-genre Ideas

Detour fuses crime drama and romantic comedy in an unusual, ludicrous way that tugs at our attention. The 24-minute short film, written by Mila Nieman and co-directed with Oliver Boje, is set in the city of Cape Town, South Africa. It follows a recently estranged couple Michael and Liena who unexpectedly meet in the same […]

Adedamola Adedayo

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12 months ago

FAME Week Africa Students Film Showcase 2025: Oliver Boje & Mila Nieman’s “Detour” Experiments Dangerously with Cross-genre Ideas

FAME Week Africa Students Film Showcase 2025: Emily Mürch’s “99 Days Too Soon” Is An Emotional Journey on Premature Birth and Neonatal Care

On 24th August, 2002, 26-week-old Emily Mürch was prematurely born through a cesarean section, after which the baby spent 99 days in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Over two decades after her birth, the young woman, a South Africa Film Academy intern, has produced and directed 99 Days Too Soon, a short personal documentary […]

Adedamola Adedayo

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12 months ago

FAME Week Africa Students Film Showcase 2025: Emily Mürch’s “99 Days Too Soon” Is An Emotional Journey on Premature Birth and Neonatal Care

TIFF 2025: Ben Proudfoot’s “The Eyes of Ghana” is a Return to Ghana’s Edited History

Ben Proudfoot’s The Eyes of Ghana had its world premiere at the documentary section of the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival.  The feature-length documentary film is partly a biopic of Chris Hesse, one of Ghana’s veteran filmmaker and Kwame Nkrumah’s personal cameraman and a capsuled history of Ghana’s independence journey, economic and cinema boom and […]

Seyi Lasisi

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12 months ago

TIFF 2025: Ben Proudfoot’s “The Eyes of Ghana” is a Return to Ghana’s Edited History

 Omotoke Solarin-Sodara’s “You Are the Problem” Weaves A Tale of Guilt

The opening quote of Omotoke Solarin-Sodara’s You Are the Problem, “A shared dream is a common prison, built from our own transgressions,” immediately sets the psychological tension driving this 12-minute thriller. This epigraph foreshadows the film’s revelations, suggesting how collective guilt can harden into self-imposed captivity. Preye and Favour, portrayed by Janet Ajanma and Fadesaye […]

Shalom Tewobola

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12 months ago

 Omotoke Solarin-Sodara’s “You Are the Problem” Weaves A Tale of Guilt
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