A guest programmer embarks on a thematic exploration using cinema as their guide
What makes a city thrive? People, human capital, and economic growth come to mind as tangible ways cities are formed, existing within colonial confines. This series explores the movement of bodies and resources as a reflection of the underlying exploitation woven into the socio-economic fabric of large cities.
Lagos, Kinshasa, Nairobi, Dakar, and Ouagadougou come into focus as the chaos of city life reflects the extractive nature of capitalism. The films in this series examine life in urban African cities through themes of perseverance, resistance, hope, and inevitably, all manner of relationships: romantic, familial, and professional. We are invited into multiple definitions of city life and all it might entail.
— Kika Memeh and Ogheneofegor Obuwoma, Guest Curators
Kika Memeh
Ogheneofegor Obuwoma
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Ouaga Girls
In this documentary we meet a group of young women training to become mechanics in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. It's a male-dominated profession, but they are determined to prove they can handle it.
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Tooth for Tooth
In this genial, satiric comedy from Senegal, Idrissa loses his job in the civil service due to austerity measures dictated by the IMF. Humiliated but too proud for his own good, he eventually goes to a shaman to exact his revenge...
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Coconut Head Generation
In Nigeria's oldest university, a student film club presents work by Med Hondo, John Akomfrah, Mahamet-Saleh Haroun and others, which spark passionate criticial conversations around ethnicity, gender, colonialism and housing.
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Eyimofe (This Is My Desire)
The acclaimed 2020 debut feature from brothers Arie and Chuko Esiri, Eyimofe traces the journeys of two distantly connected strangers as they each pursue their dream of quitting Lagos for a new life in Europe.
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