NIFS 2025 | Lagos Agenda | Aug 28 - Screening Schedule

Year: 2025
Director: Ayobola Eniola
Producer: Ololade Okedare
Cast: Chy Nwakanma, Seun Ajayi, Kunle Dada Praise Fowowe

Synopsis:
They had the perfect marriage…until reality hit. Careers. Kids. Chaos. Somewhere along the way, Ginika and George lost each other. Now, with everything on the line, one bold decision could reignite the flame – or end it for good. Love brought them together, but is it enough to keep them?

Year: 2024
Director: Elizabeth Lawani
Producer: Elizabeth Lawani
Cast: Elizabeth Lawani, Kresensia Kurniawati, Alejandro J. Guerrero

Synopsis:
Emily’s night is set, candles lit, wine poured, the perfect atmosphere. But when a cryptic message arrives from an unknown number, an unsettling feeling creeps in. Drawn into a chilling game she doesn’t understand, Emily must face the question no one ever wants to ask what happens when the past never really lets go?

Year: 2024
Director: Peace Shalom Monday
Producer: Peace Shalom Monday
Cast: Ibrahim Amokun, Steve Asinobi, Bunmi Awolowo

Synopsis:
Rage" follows the journey of a tricycle rider named Soji, who picks up a passenger, Mark, on a bustling Lagos street. As tensions rise over a minor fare disagreement, Soji’s anger escalates into a violent confrontation, resulting in Mark's untimely death.

Year: 2024
Director: Saheed Apanpa
Producer: Sesan Jigan
Cast: Peter Fatomilola, Femi Akinyemi, Ajayi Eriifeoluwasimi

Synopsis:
ÌWÉ ÒWE YORÙBÁ is well conformed in an entertaining way which captures it audience’s attention and conveys complex information fast and effectively, with each episode looking at different gems and key turning point in the history of the Yorubas.

Year: 2024
Director: Dimeji Ogunranti
Producer: Patience Abigail Iseriehen
Cast: Nimi Adekanbi, Ebube Nwani, Success Daniel Friday

Synopsis:
Night Shift focuses on Tutu, a local nurse and Bayo, car driver both struggling to provide for their son, Pelumi. They both experience little or no luck in sustaining their family through the little salaries they earn. Tutu is determined to remove her family from the vicious circle of poverty at any cost. Her path to financial freedom leads her constant night shifts where she dismember human parts.

Year: 2025
Director: Joy Isi Bewaji
Producer: Adesuwa Omon Solanke
Cast: Imotunde Adeyemo, Bryan Okoye, Anderson Nsirim

Synopsis:
An experimental storytelling on the conversations between Satan and his teammates over the course of biblical history. Understanding God’s love from the perspective of demons.

Year: 2023
Director: Tolu Awobiyi
Producer: Tolu Awobiyi
Cast: Adeoluwa Akintoba, Kunle Remi, Gabriel Afolayan, Sharon Rotimi

Synopsis:
When the son of a dead museum curator and his 3 friends embark on a journey around Nigeria to look for precious stones taken from a stolen artifact, they do not realize they are caught in an elaborate scheme involving an ex-senator, an African art recovery agency and a deadly international art thief.

Year: 2024
Director: Nathaniel Deme
Producer: Oma Ndamati
Cast: Desmond Bryce, Omotoke Tinde, Omotola Olude (Molly)

Synopsis:
Set in 1999, Lagos, against the backdrop of the trial breakthrough in the treatment of cancer in view, RAYMOND, an assassin returns home from a mission to carter to his sick sister, CHISOM. Chisom's collapse in the toilet just before she eats the meal prepared by Raymond forces him to take her to the hospital.

Year: 2025
Director: Ella Chikezie
Producer: Precious Iroagalachi
Cast: Darasimi Nadi, Nadia Dutch, Emmanuel Adex

Synopsis:
Halima, a 12-year-old girl with autism, struggles to fit into her environment in the rural, low-income Hausa community of Idi-Araba, Lagos. Her world is isolated, marked by misunderstandings from her family and peers. Her mother, Amina, a woman embittered by her sacrifices, views Halima’s behavior as a burden, while her father, Ishaya, shows a quiet yet powerless empathy. Halima is bullied at school, and her social challenges overshadow her mathematical brilliance.

Year: 2024
Director: Joshua Alabi
Producer: Angela Peters
Cast: Kayode Jnr Ojuolape, Nana Joshua, Mayowa Damilare

Synopsis:
Awori is a short film about pipeline vandalism. It focuses on dreams and hopes dashed by the harsh realities of the Nigerian states. Inspired by a personal story where five friends who reside in rural Lagos, particularly Bene, a young footballer who had just been signed by a club, died in a pipeline explosion on the 26th December 2006 while scooping oil to sell in the black market due to the bad economic situation.

Year: 2024
Director: Dr Mann (Kolade Mann)
Producer: Bemigho Bella Nadia
Cast: Femi Branch, Remi Jolaoso,

Toyosi Benjamin, Jessica Ujah

Synopsis:
This is the story of a determined young lady who faked her way into opportunity...but she found out the hard way that every lie comes with a price.

Year: 2024
Director: Loveth Ogbene
Producer: Loveth Ogbene
Cast: Yomi Orimadegun, Loveth Ogbene, MaryJane Ojie, Toyosi Oguntolu

Synopsis:
Amidst abuse and neglect, two souls find solace in each other through their windows.. until fate delivers a devastating blow

Year: 2024
Director: Ashimedua Odiachi
Producer: Bemigho Bella Nadia
Cast: Seun Ajayi, Timilehin Ojeola, Ajala Sodiq Pelumi, Olubunmi Shotade Ologbenla

Synopsis:
Upon gaining access to a wish-granting genie, a man's hasty desires for fortune push him to confront the true cost of greed.

Year: 2024
Director: Samuel "Ajirebi" Olasehinde
Producer: Arowolo Rhoda Idowu
Cast: Ropo Ewenla, Luwamide Femi-Isedowo, Obadare Akinade

Synopsis:
A powerful sorcerer will avenge his son's questionable death, with no care for whose ox is gored. However, he soon realizes that _a stone thrown with eyes closed can hit anyone, even the thrower.

Year: 2024
Director: Iyke Osoka
Producer: OritsemaTosan, Babalola Mathew Oluwatobi
Cast: King LuLu, Peter Inyang

Synopsis:
Vodi, a Fulani girl betrothed to another, finds herself torn when an outsider challenges tradition to win her heart, leading to a brutal confrontation that alters their lives forever.

Year: 2024
Director: Rotipin Tobiloba
Producer: Chief Sonia
Cast: Mallum Arik, Awe Ayobami, Jessica Gabriel's Ujah

Synopsis:
In a desperate bid to escape his tormented life, Bolaji's attempted suicide plunges him into Purgatory, a nightmarish void where he must fight demons in a bloody battle for a right to his soul.

Year: 2024
Director: Tega Obahor
Producer: Tega Obahor
Cast: Tega Obahor, William Benson, Adey Awodein

Synopsis:
In a conflicting world of dreams and reality, a young man's life unravels when his father's crusade to save him ignite a firestorm of family secretes.