Award-Winning Movie ‘Eyimofe’ Selected for New Directors/New Films’ 50th Anniversary Edition
‘Eyimofe’ (This is my Desire), presented by Guardian’s GDN Studios has been selected for the 50th-anniversary edition of New Directors/New Films – ND/NF in New York.
Ahead of its premiere on the 18th of April, at the EbonyLife Place in Victoria Island Lagos, and its cinematic release on the 23rd of April; the Museum of Modern Art and Film, Lincoln Center (FLC), New York, announced the selection of Eyimofe for the 50th edition of ND/NF.
The movie will be available from the 28th of April to the 8th of May via virtual cinema. Also, the in-person screening will extend through the 13th of May at FLC.
Since its inception, the festival has celebrated filmmakers, who spotlight the present, and anticipate the future of cinema; and whose exceptional works have defined the industry in many ways.
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Eyimofe is recognized among 27 feature films and 11 short films that will be introduced to audiences nationwide in the MoMA and FLC virtual cinemas, and to New Yorkers at Film at Lincoln Center. Other feature films selected alongside award-winning Eyimofe include Aleph dir. Iva Radivojevic, All Light, Everywhere; Theo Anthony’s All the Light We Can See; Pablo Escoto Luna Apples and others.
Written by Chuko Esiri and produced by Melissa Adeyemo, Eyimofe stars Tomiwa Edun, Jacob Alexander, Jude Akuwudike, Temi Ami-Williams, and Cynthia Ebijie.
Set in Lagos, Eyimofe follows the story of Mofe, a factory technician and Rosa, a hairstylist; on their quest for a better life in the diaspora.
The movie which premiered at the 2020 Berlin International Film Festival in Germany has been screened at several prestigious film festivals across the globe like the BFI London Film Festival in the UK, Cinecitta International Film Festival (CIFF) in the Netherlands, Indie Lisboa International Film Festival, Portugal; Valladolid International Film Festival, Spain; and Mostra Sao Paolo International Film Festival, Brazil. Eyimofe also won the Achilles Valdosta Award at the Torino Film Festival which held recently in Italy.
This year’s festival will be opened by Amalia Ulman’s ‘EL Planeta’ and will close with Sundance Jury Prize for Experimentation in Nonfiction, Theo Anthony’s ‘All Light, Everywhere’.