Excitement as Berlinale selects its first Nigerian independent film

Though several other Nigerian films have featured at the festival, including sideline shows, this is the first time an independent film from Nigeria will make the Berlinale Forum and compete for the GWFF Best First Feature award.excitement among the Nigerian film industry practitioners, who see the feat as an opportunity for more Nigerian filmmakers from the country to aspire to be at one of the “Big Three” European festivals – Cannes, Berlin, and Venice.

“Every film culture has got a mainstream and an alternative or underground – with Nigeria, seemingly, the exception. For years, international focus on Nigerian cinema had exhausted itself on the commercial phenomenon known as Nollywood, showcasing it at festival sidebars; ostensibly denying the possibility of the existence of other filmmakers wanting to go beyond Nollywood.

Commenting, Adé Sultan Sangodoyin, a co-producer in Eyimofe observed, “I think it’s important to note that the directors don’t consider this a Nollywood film; it’s modeled after Edward Yang and Hou Hsiao Hsien’s Taiwanese New Wave and Indian Parallel Cinema in style and structure, which is clear when you watch it. But, yes, it’s proudly a Nigerian film we hope would create a new meaning of freedom, expression and new considerations of cinema within the Nigerian landscape.

“It offers for the world something rich for all and sundry to understand the link between the ‘local’ and the ‘global’ as these concepts are fully comprehended by serious filmmakers from Nigeria and indeed Africa. Eyimofe will be among a plethora of cinematic creation that will remain a mirror practice, serving only to allow a few directors to integrate themselves into the intern’s circuits of African cinema, including film festivals.

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