
Julius Onah
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Biography
Julius Onah (born February 10, 1983) is a Nigerian-American filmmaker. He has directed the films The Girl Is in Trouble (2015), The Cloverfield Paradox (2018), Luce (2019), and Captain America: Brave New World (2025). Description above from the Wikipedia article Julius Onah, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For

After meeting with newly elected U.S. President Thaddeus Ross, Sam finds himself in the middle of an international incident. He must discover the reason behind a nefarious global plot before the true mastermind has the entire world seeing red.
Captain America: Brave New World

Orbiting above a planet on the brink of war, scientists test a device to solve an energy crisis and end up face-to-face with a dark alternate reality.
The Cloverfield Paradox

A highly-gifted student sees an opportunity to escape her roots by helping wealthy classmates cheat on key exams, but at great risk to her future.
Bad Genius

A star athlete and top student, Luce's idealized image is challenged by one of his teachers when his unsettling views on political violence come to light, putting a strain on family bonds while igniting intense debates on race and identity.
Luce

A Lower East Side bartender becomes entangled in a murder mystery involving a desperate woman, a missing drug dealer and the scion of a powerful investment firm.
The Girl Is in Trouble

A vibrant portrait of Jean-Michel Basquiat, the NYC artist who revolutionized 1980s art. From street graffiti to gallery stardom, his bold Neo-expressionist works left an indelible mark on the art world and beyond.
Samo Lives

A family on its way home is forced to deal with circumstances they would never hope for.
The Boundary
Babette is a woman in dire straits. An unemployed illegal immigrant from France, she must make a desperate choice when threatened with an eviction from her landlord. This choice leads to an encounter with Amir, a detached and lonely young Muslim American, that ends with devastating results for them both.
Babette
In Eberswalde, Germany, just outside of Berlin, Karl Szmolinsky is contacted by the North Korean government to send his "German Giants" to Pyong Yang. What happens next is beyond his wildest imagination.
Szmolinsky

Uzoma likes to play games. But games have consequences.
Big Man
Sue Faye, a Chinese American immigrant, and Adoga, an aspiring comic book artist from Nigeria, are faced with a difficult decision. Soon after an innocent encounter, they find themselves in a quiet romance. Unfortunately, circumstances out of their control arise and threaten to separate them. As Sue Faye meditates on her past, the possibilities of the present become another memory, and she must reconcile with the uncertainty of a decision that could change their lives forever.
She Waits in the Restless Horizon
During a typical morning in New York's East Village, two strangers are changed after a chance encounter. Linus, a street musician, is an East Village staple who serenades passersby with his most prized possession every morning, his trumpet. When Kyle, a young man from Harlem, neglectfully knocks over Linus' trumpet, his slight becomes an act that leaves both of these strangers changed forever.
Linus

A young man in Lodz, Poland chases the dream of his love as time runs out.
Don't Look Back
A young couple fall in and out of love as they muse on their lives.
Meditations/A Love Story
The tale of a young man's struggle to establish a racial identity. Blending elements of '60s agit-prop political theater with surreal storytelling, the film provides a glimpse into the mind of its protagonist during an intense psychological and emotional breakdown. As an elaborately constructed fantasy world clashes with a past that haunts him, he suffers through a downward spiral as he loses a grip on reality.
Nigger

Seven years since his last visit to Nigeria, a filmmaker meditates on the death of his father.