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Gunjal is a 2023 Pakistani action crime thriller film inspired by the true story of a Pakistani child labour activist Iqbal Masih, who led a movement against child labour in 1990s before his tragic murder. The film is directed by Shoaib Sultan, produced by Nighat Akbar Shah and written by Nirmal Bano and Ali Kazmi. [3]
Ijogbon, the coming-of-age adventure film tells the story of four teenagers from a remote village in the south-west area of Nigeria. [6] These four teenagers saw a pouch of diamonds in the strangest of ways and they chose to keep these diamonds, their decision to keep and conceal these diamonds despite the owners coming out to look for their diamonds led to some perilous events ahead of them ...
Written by Safdar Mir and Husain Mir, the film tells the story of a young Muslim girl who wants to become a dancer. [2] It stars Naseeruddin Shah, Aditi Subedi, Danish Husain, Shraddha Kaul and Rakesh Chaturvedi Om in lead roles. [3] Mee Raqsam was released on ZEE5 on 21 August 2020. [4]
Elesin Oba, The King's Horseman is a 2022 Yoruba-language Nigerian historical drama film directed by Biyi Bandele and distributed by Netflix, based on Wole Soyinka's Death and the King's Horseman, a stage play he wrote while in Cambridge, where he was a fellow student at Churchill College during his political exile from Nigeria, [1] and it is based on a real incident that took place in ...
Rattlesnake is a 1995 Nigerian action film written and directed by Amaka Igwe and produced by Austin Awulonu. [1] [2] It's the director's first foray into making a feature-length film and was made in 3 parts. [3] [4] [5] It featured Francis Duru, Okechukwu Igwe, Nkem Owoh, Anne Njemanze and Ernest Obi. [5]
The modern film industry started with films such as, The Narrow Part, which was also titled The White Handkerchief by Tunde Kelani. The stories were adapted from Bayo Adebowale's book The Virgin. The Hausa-language cinema, also known informally as Kannywood, is also a sub-industry of Nollywood, mainly based in Kano.
Òlòturé tells the story of Òlòturé (Sharon Ooja), a young and naive Nigerian journalist who goes undercover to expose the dangerous and brutal underworld of human trafficking. Based in Lagos , it depicts how sex workers are recruited to be exploited overseas.
Juju Stories is a three-part anthology film exploring juju (magical) stories rooted in Nigerian folklore and urban legend, written and directed by C.J. Obasi, Abba Makama and Michael Omonua. The film features three stories: "Love Potion" by Omonua, "YAM" by Makama, and "Suffer The Witch" by Obasi.