‘The Eyes of Ghana’ and ‘My Father’s Shadow’ Among New African Film Festival Lineup – Film News in Brief

‘The Eyes of Ghana’ and ‘My Father’s Shadow’ Among New African Film Festival Lineup – Film News in Brief

New African Film Festival Sets 22nd Edition With Nigeria’s First Cannes Selection and Major Oscar Contenders

True fatherhood: Domestic intimacy amid the shadow of national rupture - Prime Progress NG

By Bonface Orucho: Set during Nigeria’s controversial 1993 annulled presidential election, a new film, My Father’s Shadow, follows a father navigating Lagos with his sons as civil unrest simmers. The film turns political rupture into a family and fatherhood memory by grounding history in domestic life rather than spectacle. The film opens in rural Nigeria, where two young brothers, Akin and Remi, fill the quiet with childhood play and small quar…