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A young woman imagines a digitally controlled transhuman life.
A woman struggles to control the thoughts looping in her head. The film is an ode to Vine & her Loop Counter.
A guy who does not know how to break up with his girlfriend keeps replaying the conversation in his head.
How do you stage a miracle healing? Protagonists are cast and different variations are tried out, improved and discarded. Boundaries dissolve between church and theatre, faith and credibility.
Juju Stories tackles juju in contemporary Lagos through three stories. In Love Potion, by Omonua, an unmarried woman agrees to use juju to find herself an ideal mate. In Yam, by Makama, consequences arise when a street urchin picks up seemingly random money from the roadside. In Suffer the Witch, by Obasi, love and friendship turns into obsession, when a young college woman attracts her crush's interest.
Haunted by dreams of an ancestral Okoroshi masquerade, a disillusioned security guard wakes up one morning to find himself transformed into a mute, purple spirit, in Abba Makama’s surrealist romp through the sprawling city of Lagos.
A short film that “gives a nightmarish spin to a conversation between two friends at a psycho-spiritual crossroads” - Tega Okiti.
Across two crucial periods in Nigerian history, two young women must ponder the painful sacrifices they are forced to make for love.
