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.
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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.
Foreword (Audiovisual Crossroads Issue #1 – July 2022)
The essays in this collection, ‘Audio-Visual Crossroads’, proceed from a self-conscious attention to the status of the relationship between motion picture and music. The contributions are varied in interest and focus, they reveal different stylistic temperaments and orientations toward music and film, and their co-appearance in the volume is a bold and honest testimony to the importance of the topic.
Music, Movies and Memories
In 1997, I wept alongside the world as Jack shivered in the icy ocean and Rose clung onto life and her makeshift raft. Like everyone else (be honest!), I had belted ‘My Heart Will Go On’ into hairbrushes and maths sets and rulers.
The Evolution of Original Music in Nollywood
Following the seamless integration of mainstream music into Nollywood films, it can be argued that the industry is making more imaginative use of music, especially in establishing meaningful connections beyond Nollywood.
Morality in Yoruba Movie Soundtracks
While society typically favours ‘moral’ or ‘lesson’ movies, some scholars have taken exception to how these lessons or morals are portrayed in Nollywood films.