Year: 2023

Based on Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani's 2009 novel of the same name, I Do Not Come To You By Chance is a comedy-drama directed by Ishaya Bako that looks at the inner-workings of one of…

In spite of a variety of ambiguous themes, Ishaya Bako’s I Do Not Come To You By Chance is a film that inspires empathy in its audience, encouraging viewers to consider the circumstances of…

Adapted from the Nigerian novel by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani, I Do Not Come to You by Chance is a film with an easy to follow, rounded plot that engages audiences from beginning to end.…

Nigerian fraudulent email scams are revitalized with an air of humor and lightness in Ishaya Bako’s fresh dramatic comedy I Do Not Come to You By Chance. Unemployed graduate Kingsley has always doted on…

Set in and around the Mongolian capital of Ulaanbaatar, Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir’s debut feature, City of Wind, is a quintessential tale situating the spiritual conflicts at the juncture between nomadic tradition and global urbanism. At…

Kaouther Ben Hania’s “Four Daughters” is a cinematographic blend of documentary and fiction, an honest exploration of memory, loss, and the complexity of reality and fantasy. The lines between the two are blurred in…

Kaouther Ben Hania's newest experimental docu-drama hybrid, Four Daughters, depicts a world of vicious and merciless creatures, ravenous for prey, a world where Olfa Hamrouni's two eldest daughters are “devoured by the wolf.” In…

A few years back, the news of a single mother, Olfa Hamrouni, losing two of her four daughters, Rahma and Ghofrane, to the influence of ISIS filled the Tunisian national news. In the hybrid…

Co-winner of the Golden Eye for Best Documentary at this year’s Cannes, Tunisian filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hanja’s docudrama Four Daughters tells the story of Olfa Hamrouni and her four daughters –Ghofrane, Rahma, Eya, and…