Nigerian cinema has grown well beyond the prolific but low-budget Nollywood direct-to-video era, with a younger wave of filmmakers bringing considered, festival-ready work to global audiences. Eyimofe (This Is My Desire) is a fine example: quiet, precise, and rooted in the economic realities of Lagos life. See what Macca made of it below.
Rating: 3.5★
"Everything is sacrifice, you just have to make sure you don't sacrifice the wrong thing." That line lands early in My Father's Shadow and it stays with you for the rest of the film's running time, sitting quietly at the back of
Genre Drama
★★★ — Eyimofe (This Is My Desire) (2020)
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