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Abuja calling! 🎉🎞️ Join us this weekend at the Independence Weekend Blowout (IWB) organised by Iyannu and Moye Media. .media

FAITH AND JOURNEY (by )
and ILÉ IFÁ (by ) from our May 2022 film selection (Tradition Today) will be screened this Saturday, October 4 as part of IWB's Curating Our Culture programme.

You don't want to miss it!
Thanks to the filmmakers for the chance to show their films once again! 🤗🥳💖

Date: Saturday, October 4th
Time: 12.30pm
Venue: Che Bar (within 1st Forty Hotel), Wuse 2, Abuja.

About the films:
FAITH AND JOURNEY (dir. Okwei Odili; 10′)
A Nigerian musician’s faith is renewed when she encounters African spirituality in the African diaspora. The short documentary is filmed in Nigeria and Brazil, two countries that share a lot of history principally as a result of the Trans-Atlantic enslavement trade. In Salvador Bahia, and other parts of Brazil, many Afro-Brazilian descendants continue in their African ways, and it serves as a mental and creative catalyst and continuum for the singer, renewing her faith and belief in her roots.

ILÉ IFÁ | Where Powers Live (dir. by Shola Lawal; 15′)
The film follows a young priestess painting ancient Yoruba religion and spiritual practice in a new light with new-age tools like social media. Set in Ibadan, Nigeria, the film highlights the discrimination faced by adherents of the practice, a minority often portrayed as sinister in Nollywood, Nigeria’s film industry. It pokes at prevalent institutional neglect of indigenous religion worshippers who do not enjoy the political representation accorded to the dominant, albeit foreign religions most follow. (English / Yoruba with subtitles.)

Showing this Sunday, September 14: FAMILY PORTRAITS (Short Film Programme)
Explore the notion of family through three short films from across with stops in , and .
Experience a range of emotions as the films reflect on community, belonging, oppression, and liberation...
We look forward to seeing you! Tell a friend and bring two more! 😄

👉 Read more (link in bio):
https://screenoutlouder.com/family-portraits/

📍5.00pm | Sunday, September 14, 2025 | Alliance Française Lagos, 9 Osborne Road, Ikoyi | . No RSVP required.

GARIBOU (dir. Seydou Cisse; 20′) .cisse.5
In the marketplace of a Malian village, a young “Garibou” named Baillo begs every day on behalf of his caretaker, the Moualim. In the evening, the Moualim imposes terror over Baillo and the other children of the Koranic school. To escape this tyranny, Baillo takes refuge in his imagination. But when his barely 6-year-old brother Sékou is placed with the Moualim, nothing can turn Baillo away from the unbearable reality of their condition. ( / )

HENET WARD (dir. Morad Mostafa; 23′) .mostafaa
Halima, a Sudanese woman lives in Egypt and works as a henna painter. On a regular working day she goes to one of Giza’s local areas to prepare a bride for her wedding. She is accompanied by Ward, her 7-year-old daughter who starts to wander around and discover the place. (Fiction/ /Comedy)

AYỌ̀ (dir. Adéọlá Ọlágúnjú; 31′)
In the shadow of life’s ongoing struggle, a different kind of revolution blooms: the revolution of shared joy. Told through the lens of a mother and her son, AYỌ̀ [Joy] presents communal joy as “post-activism”––a vital, sustained practice of cultivating hope.
🤝🏾🎬 Organised by Screen Out Loud and Alliance Française Ikoyi/Mike Adenuga Centre. .lagos
🎬👀🕵🏾‍♀️💬 the best of at our film screenings. Stay for the conversations. 😉