• Afolabi Olalekan: Freedom Way, 2024

  • Afolabi Olalekan: Freedom Way, 2024

  • Max Fouchee: Cape Town Royalty Programme, 2023

  • Afolabi Olalekan: Freedom Way, 2024

Freedom Way

  • Introduction

    Osarugue Otebele is a PhD candidate in the Department of Film & Media at UC Berkeley.

featuring

Adebowale Adedayo, Mike Afolarin, Bimbo Akintola, Teniola Aladese,

Director Afolabi Olalekan and writer Blessing Uzzi crafted one of 2024’s most acclaimed Nigerian films, telling an intense and powerful story of a disparate group of people facing economic pressure while seeking to improve their living conditions amidst a corrupt and oppressive city. The lives of nine individuals living in Lagos are intertwined after software developers release a new rideshare app, which soon attracts the attention of corrupt police officers and developers looking not to uplift a community, but to merely profit from it.

FILM DETAILS 
Screenwriter
  • Blessing Uzzi
Cinematographer
  • Muhammad Atta Ahmed
  • Kabelo Thathe
Language
  • English
  • Yoruba
  • with English subtitles
Print Info
  • Color
  • DCP
  • 88 mins
Source
  • African Film Festival
Preceded By

Cape Town Royalty Programme

Max Fouchee, South Africa, 2023

A spokesperson for a video marketing luxury apartments to Europeans is increasingly distracted by the circumstances of Cape Town’s population in this satire on gentrification.

FILM DETAILS 
Print Info
  • Color
  • Digital
  • 7 mins
source
  • African Film Festival

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