THE ARCHIVE: QUEER NIGERIANS

By Simisolaoluwa AKANDE

DOC SOCIETY - as FIN

Documentary - Completed 2023


Festivals
& Awards

BFI London FF 2023
Winner - Best Short Film
    • Year of production
    • 2023
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • UNITED KINGDOM
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH
    • Duration
    • 25 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Simisolaoluwa AKANDE
    • Producer(s)
    • Maxine GORDON, Ermias ASFAW, Joseph BUSHELL
    • Synopsis
    • Over a span of three months, 20 queer Nigerians living in the UK document their lives through audio diaries. From childhood to the present, participants recount the highs and lows of their journey towards ‘becoming’; telling stories about how universal ideas of family, love, and finding oneself, are obfuscated within the multiple intersections of blackness, African-ness, and queerness.