Schedule

August 7

1pm
Rattlesnake
Rating PG - 12yrs
Duration 150 mins
Igbo with English subtitles

Ahanna Okolo is thrust into an uncertain reality by the sudden death of his father. His treacherous uncle Odinaka unleashes anarchy on the Okolo family and sets Ahanna on a path that changes his lifeforever.Based on a true story.

4:30pm
Blood and Henna
Rating PG - 12yrs
Duration 105 mins
Hausa with English subtitles

Nigeria, early 90s. Musa comes back to his village after his shop has been burnt in Lagos as a result of protests surrounding the military’s two-party system. Back home, he re-unites with his two friends, especiallyShehu, a radical reporter on the run from the military’s crackdown on journalists.

Musa meets and falls in love with Saude whose father is the richest farmer in the village. Saude gives birth to twins who grow up into real adorable kids until a meningitis outbreak threatens to breakup the family’s happiness…

7:30pm 
Maami
Rating PG - 12yrs
Duration 78 mins
Yoruba with English subtitles

Single parent, Maami, and her young son are desperately poor. Gifted with a loving heart, enterprising spirit and brave soul, she is the centre of her son’s world, until he longs for the father he has never known, a man with a terrible secret.

Set over a two-day period, leading to the 2010 World Cup, MAAMi is an inspiring story of a poor, conscientious single parent’s struggles to raise her only child, Kashimawo, who, eventually, rises to international stardom in an English football club, Arsenal, and becomes a national hero.

Adapted by Tunde Babalola, from Femi Osofisan’s novel of the same name, this film about love, perseverance and fate unfolds throughKashimawo’s reminiscences of his hardscrabble childhood in the southern Nigerian town, Abeokuta

August 8

12:45pm
Oriki…what’s in a name?
Rating PG - 12yrs
Duration 26 mins
English

For the Yorubas in southwest Nigeria and a lot of cultures across Africa, a name is more than a moniker or a means of differentiating one person from another.

It is a serious and time-honoured means of giving a newborn child an identity. Increasing urban shifts and a strong emphasis on global compliance have left important aspects of traditional cultural identities, such as naming children,under attack.

And as more people adopt western ways of thinking and understanding, the threat of extinction becomes more glaring, more imminent, more inevitable. Are Africans losing their sense of self? Is there a chancefor us to recover this heritage? Is progress in the age of globalization incompatible with the preservation of our cultures and historical heritage?  

In Oriki, award-winning documentarian, Femi Odugbemi, tackles these questions, taking us on a journey through time to uncover the mystery and implications of Oriki as a lost art. 

Arugba
Rating PG - 12yrs
Yoruba with English subtitles

Adetutu (Bukola Awoyemi) is on the threshold of responsibility. She must juggle her role as ‘Arugba’ in the annual community festival with her studies at the university, she must care for an ailing and grieving friend, contend with a demanding king, Adejare (Peter Badejo), a blossoming musical career and her growing fondness for Makinwa (Segun Adefila)- himself a gifted performing artiste.

Set against the backdrop of a corrupt society seeking cleansing, rebirth and nationhood, Arugba must perform her annual traditional role of carrying the sacrifice in a procession to the river…

4pm 
Big Daddy
Rating PG - 12yrs
Duration 12 mins
English

A young woman is at the crossroads. A victim of rape and sexual abuse throughout her childhood and adolesence, her life is marred by the scars of the past. How does she chart a path forward? 

Violated
Rating PG - 12yrs 
Duration 118 mins
English

A young couple’s love affair is complicated by secrets from the past.

7:30pm 
Good People, Great Nation
Rating PG - 12yrs
Duration 4 mins
English

Nigeria is an embodiment of the energies of its peoples.

This fast-paced narrative presents in rich visual imagery, Nigeria as a catalogue of hope, possibilities and optimism with a captivating energy and a colourful history.

I’ll Take my Chances
Rating PG - 12yrs
Duration 90 mins
Efik and English

I.K is a young Theatre Arts graduate with a passion for dance. He hopes to stage a drama called “Drumbeats” working with his American girlfriend Gisele.

He however has to go for his National Youth Service in the rustic village of Ikot Uyai in Cross River State and there meets the enigmatic and beautiful Idara.

Despite their obvious differences, the two are drawn together but Idara harbours a dark secret. She has been selected to be the next High Priestess of Unek, a deity that is worshipped by her people through dance.

Torn between her love for I.K and her duty to obey the call of the deity, Idara must choose and face the greatest battle of all.