Lagos Film Society (LFS), supported by Goethe-Institut Nigeria and British Council will be hosting a 2-Day symposium titled 'Reclaiming History, Unveiling Memory'. Come April 29th and 30th, several ...

The British Nigerian director Akinola Davies Jr. and his brother Wale were both toddlers when their father died. As adults, they could hardly remember him. Then Wale had an idea for movie. What if, by ...

(CNN) — Nigeria is going to Cannes. In what is understood to be a first in the film festival’s near-80 year history, a movie from Africa’s most populous nation has been chosen as part of the Cannes ...

Inside the Grand Theatre Lumiere, one of cinema’s great cathedrals in Cannes, France, Akinola Davies Jr. stood, acknowledging the applause of over 2,000 peers. The British Nigerian director had just ...

Chuko and Arie Esiri's "Clarissa" is the second Nigerian film to ever play Cannes. With Neon as its global distributor, they pair tell IndieWire they hope to build a new Nigerian wave of cinema.

African cinema will make history at this year's Cannes Film Festival, with filmmakers from two of the continent's nascent screen industries cracking the official selection of the prestigious French ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Left-right: Actor Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù stars in "My Father's Shadow," directed by Akinola Davies Jr. and co-produced by Fatherland ...