The line "I'll see you in my dreams" is repeated frequently in Akinola Davies Jr.'s "My Father's Shadow," the first film from a Nigerian director to earn a slot in the Cannes Film Festival's ...

‘My Father’s Shadow’, set in Lagos in the aftermath of the 1993 Presidential election was officially announced on Thursday by organizers to compete at the Cannes Film festival billed for May ...

With the likes of “My Father’s Shadow” and other recent festival titles like “Mami Wata,” the first Nigerian film to premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in 2023, there are signs that ...

And so “My Father’s Shadow” resolves as a movie less about a father than it is about the absence of one — a vibrant, deeply felt love letter to Lagos, written in blood.

“My Father’s Shadow” opens with a reverie that mixes scenes from the natural world —flies buzzing, ants swarming, wind blowing — with two young boys, ages 8 and 11 (brothers Godwin Egbo ...