‘Eyimofe’ Earns NAACP Award Nomination

Nigerian feature film, Eyimofe (This Is My Desire), has become the first Nigerian film to earn a National Association for Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP) Image Awards nomination.

Directed by Arie and Chuko Esiri, Eyimofe received its nomination for ‘Outstanding International Motion Picture.’

Other films nominated alongside the award-winning Eyimofe are 7 Prisoners (Brazil), African America (South Africa), Flee (Denmark), and The Gravedigger’s Wife (Somalia).

The NAACP Image Awards comes up on February 26 2022.

Eyimofe, a revelatory, award-winning debut feature from Arie and Chuko Esiri, is a heartrending and hopeful portrait of everyday human endurance in Lagos, Nigeria.

Shot on richly textured 16 mm film and infused with the spirit of neorealism, Eyimofe traces the journeys of two distantly connected strangers — Mofe (Jude Akuwudike), an electrician dealing with the fallout of a family tragedy, and Rosa (Temi Ami-Williams), a hairdresser supporting her pregnant teenage sister — as they each pursue their dream of starting a new life in Europe while bumping up against the harsh economic realities of a world in which every interaction is a transaction.

From these intimate stories emerges a vivid snapshot of life in contemporary Lagos, whose social fabric is captured in all its vibrancy and complexity.

NAACP, an acronym for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, is a civil rights organisation in the United States, formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavour to advance justice for African Americans.

It also highlights the achievements of people of colour across television, music, literature and film, and the promotion of social justice through their creative accomplishments.