“Decasia,” Nigeria’s flagship heritage film festival organised by the Nigerian Film Corporation (NFC), is set to return to Lagos from July 27 to July 30, marking its first edition in the city since 2019.
This second Berlin-Lagos Archive Film Festival edition is a collaborative initiative between the NFC, the Lagos Film Society, and several German cultural institutions.
Partners from Germany include the Arsenal Institute for Film and Video Art (Berlin), the Deutsche Filminstitut & Filmmuseum (Frankfurt), Goethe University Frankfurt, the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service), and the Goethe-Institut.
Themed “Unleashing the African Archive,” the four-day event will open with Brendan Shehu’s 1992 film “Kulba Na Barna” and will take place at the NFC Lagos Office in Ikoyi. The festival will also have a parallel edition in Berlin, Germany.
This year’s programme will showcase four new films developed during Goethe-Institut Nigeria’s “Post Memory/Post Archive” project. Featured titles include:
- “Reflection of Memory” (2024) by Abiodun Osho
- “Our Bodies, Nigeria’s Ghosts” (2024) by Immaculata Abba
- “No Let Dem Die” (2024) by Ogochukwu Umeadi
- “FESTAC: We Remember” (2024) by Elisha Yusuf Ishaya, Azeezah Adekambi, and Eiseke Bolaj Olabode Moses