{"id":4516,"date":"2026-04-10T05:40:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T05:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/nigerian-brothers-bring-parallels-of-fatherhood-nationhood-to-the-screen\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T05:40:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T05:40:24","slug":"nigerian-brothers-bring-parallels-of-fatherhood-nationhood-to-the-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/nigerian-brothers-bring-parallels-of-fatherhood-nationhood-to-the-screen\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian brothers bring parallels of fatherhood, nationhood to the screen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s.rfi.fr\/media\/display\/9eb787d6-39ac-11f0-82e2-005056bf30b7\/w:1024\/p:16x9\/My%20Father%27s%20Shadow_Un%20Certain%20Regard_Cannes_2025.jpg\" \/><br \/>Lagos, Nigeria, June 1993. Political upheaval grips the country as it votes in its first general election since the 1983 military coup. It\u2019s against this backdrop that Akinola Davies Jr set his award-winning debut film My Father\u2019s Shadow. Alongside hopes for a new nation are the trials and tribulations of an ordinary father and his sons \u2013 a story of love, loss and absence.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfi.fr\/en\/culture\/20260329-nigerian-brothers-bring-parallels-of-fatherhood-nationhood-to-the-screen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lagos, Nigeria, June 1993. Political upheaval grips the country as it votes in its first general election since the 1983 military coup. It\u2019s against this backdrop that Akinola Davies Jr set his award-winning debut film My Father\u2019s Shadow. Alongside hopes for a new nation are the trials and tribulations of an ordinary father and his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4516","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-lifestyle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}