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Cannes Film Festival 2025: Nigeria marks festival first with ‘My Father’s Shadow’ selection

Cannes Film Festival 2025: Nigeria marks festival first with ‘My Father’s Shadow’ selection



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Nigeria is going to Cannes. In what is understood to be a first in the film festival’s near-80 year history, a movie from Africa’s most populous nation has been chosen as part of the Cannes Film Festival’s Official Selection.

“My Father’s Shadow,” written and directed by Akinola Davies Jr. and co-written by his brother Wale Davies, stars Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù (“Slow Horses,” “Gangs of London”). The film is set in Lagos in the aftermath of the 1993 presidential election and follows Dìrísù’s father and two sons Remi and Akin, as they attempt an odyssey across the city amid the election’s turbulent fallout.

Davies Jr.’s…

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