Chuko and Arie Esiri's "Clarissa" is the second Nigerian film to ever play Cannes. With Neon as its global distributor, they ...

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From real-life stories told on screen to fiction inspired by real events, filmmakers in Nigeria have produced powerful works that showcase the human cost of insecurity. Through powerful storytelling, ...

According to him, he became more popular as an actor because of his works in Nigeria. “I don’t think I was big as an actor until I went to Nigeria. When I started here as Van Vicker, I wasn’t as ...

Netflix’s recently released film Jagun Jagun (The Warrior) is set in pre-colonial Nigeria and follows the story of a feared warlord named Ogunjimi. While playing out in the past, it is steeped in ...

The line “I’ll see you in my dreams” is repeated frequently in Akinola Davies Jr.’s “My Father’s Shadow,” the first film from a Nigerian director to earn a slot in the Cannes Film Festival’s official ...

The distinctive makeup of early-aughts Nigerian movies is coming back — and so is the daring attitude of the women who wore it. By Houreidja Tall In the early 2000s, the femme fatales of Nollywood ...

Is Nollywood having its Cannes coming-out party? Ranking among the world’s most prolific film industries for years, Nigeria’s scrappy, homegrown biz is breaking out at this year’s festival, with the ...

A wonky mosaic in the shape of Nigeria plays a subtly telling role in Arie and Chuko Esiri’s Cannes Film Festival break-out ...

The effects of COVID-19 were and continue to be felt on a global basis. Many industries were temporarily shut down in the months following the first epidemic. Many governments used non-essential ...