Film Screening: I Am Still With You
Titled after Emmanuel Iduma’s 2023 memoir about individual and collective loss that have shaped him, his family, and our country Nigeria, this event presents four short films from Nigerian (& diasporic Nigerian) filmmakers that explore moving on in the wake of grief/loss/trauma. Together, these films show many ways that both events of traumatic losses and the people we lose in them continue to live with/in us.
The five films follow a journey, starting with Azuya’s Swimming in a Sea of Trauma (2022), a ghost story about memories of the Biafran War which paints the emotional landscape of trauma. Caleb Femi’s Survivor’s Guilt (2019) uses humour and poetry to illustrate the burden of guilt and disbelief survivors often face. Kasumu’s Losing Joy (2022) is a fiction short set on the 1-year anniversary of Joy’s death as Faith, Joy’s sister struggles with the fact of her reality. Abba’s You Matter to Me (2022) is a personal documentary that explores her parents’ ideas around finding joy despite the loss and tensions in their lives. The post-screening discussion/reflection will be on themes of loss, family, grief and community as invoked by the films.
📅 29th October, 2023
🕒 1:30 pm
📍 Alliance Française | Mike Adenuga Center, 9 Osborne Road, Ikoyi
🎟️ FREE ENTRY (Registration required)
Free!
Description
Titled after Emmanuel Iduma’s 2023 memoir about individual and collective loss that have shaped him, his family, and our country Nigeria, this event presents four short films from Nigerian (& diasporic Nigerian) filmmakers that explore moving on in the wake of grief/loss/trauma. Together, these films show many ways that both events of traumatic losses and the people we lose in them continue to live with/in us.
The five films follow a journey, starting with Azuya’s Swimming in a Sea of Trauma (2022), a ghost story about memories of the Biafran War which paints the emotional landscape of trauma. Caleb Femi’s Survivor’s Guilt (2019) uses humour and poetry to illustrate the burden of guilt and disbelief survivors often face. Kasumu’s Losing Joy (2022) is a fiction short set on the 1-year anniversary of Joy’s death as Faith, Joy’s sister struggles with the fact of her reality. Abba’s You Matter to Me (2022) is a personal documentary that explores her parents’ ideas around finding joy despite the loss and tensions in their lives. The post-screening discussion/reflection will be on themes of loss, family, grief and community as invoked by the films.
📅 29th October, 2023
🕒 1:30 pm
📍 Alliance Française | Mike Adenuga Center, 9 Osborne Road, Ikoyi
🎟️ FREE ENTRY (Registration required)