Leaving Ikorodu in 1999 (Drama)
Director: Rashida Seriki
Producer: Tobi Kyeremateng
Screenwriter: Rashida Seriki
Cinematographer: Jaime Ackroyd
Composer: Cassie Kinoshi
Editor: Marnie Hollande
Production Designer: Zainab Abimbola Oladipupo
Costume Designer: Momo Hassan-Odukale
Key Cast: Motunrayo Abiola-Oloke,Tobi Bakre,Tomi Ojo,Sheila Atim
Ten-year-old Momo is set to join her recently migrated mum in London. But as she’s driven to the airport by her aunt and uncle, they start to wonder whether leaving Nigeria is in her best interests.
A vibrant slice of childhood with an irresistible trio of lead performances, this touching road trip flips the perspective on familiar emigration narratives, threading a delicate line between the comfort of homeland and the promise – however uncertain – of a better future elsewhere. Provocative and deeply affecting, it’ll make you yearn for home, and for those left behind.