The Royal African Society, in collaboration with the British Film Institute (BFI), today announced its programme for this year's Film Africa Festival, which will take place in London from 30 October - 8 November 2020 and include the World Premiere of Damilola Orimogunje's (Losing My Religion) debut feature, FOR MARIA EBUN PATAKI.
The Nigerian film, which charts a woman's struggle with post-partum depression will have a virtual event screening and Q&A via the BFI Player on Sunday 1 November.
After the complicated birth of her first child Maria, Derin (Meg Otanwa) becomes withdrawn from family life, unable to engage in the celebrations around her newborn. Her bewildered mother-in-law (Tina Mba) insists that she is not a good enough parent, while her increasingly worried husband Afolabi (Gabriel Afolayan) watches from the sidelines as she becomes a shadow of herself and fails to bond with her baby.
