Movies highlighting the uniqueness of Lagos, the host city of the IREP International Documentary Festival since its inception 10 years ago, will be screened on Day 3 of this year’s event.
The festival starts with a pre-festival cocktail on Wednesday, March 18 at Freedom Park, Lagos Island.
The acclaimed documentary on the Centre of Excellence, Supo Shasore’s ‘Journey to An African Colony’, will be screened on Wednesday before six others are shown on Saturday, March 21.
The documentaries are, ‘Tour of Loving Lagos’, ‘Eko: An Ode to Lagos’ by Ariyo Adebanjo, ‘Badagry: The Joy of Return’ by Ronke Macaulay and ‘Pride and Glory’ by Chiemela Peter.
The others are Allen Onyige’s ‘Sunset in Makoko’ and Remi Vaughan Richards’ ‘Faaji Agba’.
Culture enthusiast, Aduke Gomez, will moderate the question and answer session that follows each screening.
More than 50 films are set for screening at this year’s IREP, which retains the theme ‘Africa in Self Conversation’ drawn from the founding conceptual framework of the forum and its festival project.
Organisers explained that the theme “is designed to promote awareness about the power of documentary format to serve as a means of deepening and sharing social and cultural education as well as encouraging participatory democracies in our societies.”
The 10th-anniversary edition will bring back films and conversations from 2011 that touch on democracy and governance, development and the politics of identity before it ends with a CORA Stampede themed ‘Democracy and Memories’ on Sunday, March 22.
Ed Keazor’s ‘January 15, 1970: Untold Memories of the Nigerian Civil War’ would be screened at the Stampede with Toyin Akinosho engaging the filmmaker and a representative of Centre Memories in a conversation.
