Some movies journey the world earlier than they discover their manner house. Which Way, a Lagos story informed in English, Yoruba and Pidgin, has carried out precisely that.
Earlier this yr, on the Portugal Indie Film Festival, the movie gained two awards: Best Director for Jide Okeke and Best Cinematography for Emmanuel Oputa. Now it returns to town it was written about. On Tuesday 3 November, Which Way has its Africa premiere as an Official Selection of the Africa International Film Festival (AFRIFF), screening at 8pm at Filmhouse Cinemas, Landmark, Victoria Island.
For producer Jumafor Ajogwu, the founding father of Leeds-based Bold Pictures, the Lagos premiere issues greater than some other date within the movie’s calendar. “Awards abroad are wonderful, but this film belongs to Lagos,”he says. “These are our streets, our languages, our families. I want the people who will recognise themselves in it to be the ones who see it first in Africa.”
Which Way follows Ladi, a mechanic in Lagos, his spouse Beatrice and their teenage daughter Feyi, a household held collectively and torn aside by what none of them will say out loud. When Ladi’s sister Shewa returns with a secret from their childhood, the cracks start to point out. What the household can’t converse, they sing.
The movie stars Floyd Igbo, Chidinma Nebo, Mariam Kayode and Onome Akpotebu, that includes Chimezie Imo, Olayiwola Razaq, Stan Nze, Ijeoma Grace Agu and Yemi Blaq. It was written by Temi Mattu and Jide Okeke, and produced by Jumafor Ajogwu and Ayo Alade, who additionally composed the unique music.
Ajogwu has labored on among the most talked-about Nigerian movies of current years, together with Lionheart, The Milkmaid, Nigeria’s Oscar submission and most not too long ago, My Father’s Shadow, which premiered at Cannes 2025 and gained BAFTA 2026. With Bold Pictures he’s now producing his personal slate from the UK, constructed for audiences throughout the worldwide African diaspora. Which Way is the corporate’s first function.
“We made this film independently, with people who believed in it,”Ajogwu says. “To bring it home to AFRIFF, in front of a Lagos audience, is the moment we have been working towards.”
Bold Pictures presents Which Way at the side of Afribold Pictures Network and Future 6 Media. The movie runs 113 minutes and is subtitled in English.
Which Way screens on Tuesday 3 November, 8pm, at Filmhouse Cinemas, Landmark, Victoria Island, as a part of AFRIFF 2026.
