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Abba Makama is known for Juju Stories (2021), Green White Green (2016) and Visions (2017).
This documentary explores the diverse key players contributing to the success of the second-largest film industry in the world: Nigeria's Nollywood.
Juju Stories tackles juju in contemporary Lagos through three stories. In Love Potion, by Omonua, an unmarried woman agrees to use juju to find herself an ideal mate. In Yam, by Makama, consequences arise when a street urchin picks up seemingly random money from the roadside. In Suffer the Witch, by Obasi, love and friendship turns into obsession, when a young college woman attracts her crush's interest.
A coming of age a story about 3 young boys from Nigeria's major ethnic groups on an adventure to make a short film inspired by the history of Nigeria.
A short film that “gives a nightmarish spin to a conversation between two friends at a psycho-spiritual crossroads” - Tega Okiti.
From traditional voodoo stories, via realistic tales with urban themes, to ground-breaking genre films: Nigerian cinema has a wide range indeed. Join the ride as Nigerian filmmaker Abba Makama sets out to explain the Lagos-based film industry we know as Nollywood – an industry that produces up to 50 films per week, often with a budget of less than 10 000 dollars.
Haunted by dreams of an ancestral Okoroshi masquerade, a disillusioned security guard wakes up one morning to find himself transformed into a mute, purple spirit, in Abba Makama’s surrealist romp through the sprawling city of Lagos.