August 13: TILAÏ (1990) by Idrissa Ouedraogo
Saga returns to his village after an absence of two years. Many things have changed. His fiancée Nogma has become his father’s second wife.
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July 9: JOSEP (2020) by Aurel
February 1939. Overwhelmed by the flood of Republicans fleeing the Franco dictatorship, the French government parked them in camps. Two men separated by the barbed wire will become friends. One is a gendarme, the other a cartoonist. From Barcelona to New York, the true story of Josep Bartolí, anti-Franco fighter and exceptional artist.
June 25: Four Short Films by Kagho Idhebor
In partnership with BCBlunt Films and Alliance Française Lagos, Screen Out Loud will present BURKINA BABES, DARK ROOM, THE BROKEN MASK, and MY FATHER’S BOOK, all directed by Kagho Idhebor.
May 14: OTITI (2022) by Ema Edosio-Deelen
A seamstress with commitment issues faces strong opposition from her half-brothers when she decides to take care of the ailing father who had abandoned her as a child.
March 26: SOULA by Salah Issaad | #WomensHistoryMonth
Soula, a young single mother rejected by her family in the name of honor, trying to survive, finds herself caught up in a spiral of violence.
February 12: THE WORLD AFTER US by Louda Ben Salah-Cazanas | #MyFrenchFilmFestival
Labidi, a young writer in love and in debt, is struggling to complete his first novel after the success of his short story.
December 11: ALL NA VIBES by Taiwo Egunjobi | Nigerian Premiere
The lives of three teenagers and a hitman intertwine in a tale of violence and loss.
November 13: RUBEN BRANDT, COLLECTOR by Milorad Krstić | Nigerian Premiere | #ArtCinemaDay
Three expert thieves embark on a series of art thefts as therapy for their psychiatrist’s nightmares. A detective hopes to curtail their dreams.
October 9: SISTERS WITH TRANSISTORS by Lisa Rovner
SISTERS WITH TRANSISTORS is the untold story of electronic music’s female pioneers, remarkable composers who embraced machines and their liberating technologies to utterly transform how we produce and listen to music today.
Audio-visual Crossroads #1
To accompany the film programme, it was only natural to commission essays on the interactions of music and film, or music on film: enter Audiovisual Crossroads. What you will discover here is an eclectic blend of subject matters exploring both artistic genres from different angles, representative of – but not limited to – how we interact with music and/or film.