In “My Father’s Shadow,” which is playing in the Cannes Film Festival’s Un Certain Regard section, the Davies brothers pay tribute to the father they hardly knew in a shattering father-son ...

“My Father’s Shadow” pulls off a miraculous, double-edged feat with a rather simple structure. The film, written by brothers Akinola and Wale Davies and directed by the former, spans one day ...

The line “I’ll see you in my dreams” is repeated frequently in Akinola Davies Jr.’s “My Father’s Shadow,” the first film from a Nigerian director to earn a slot in the Cannes Film ...

"I view him no differently than any other of my siblings, as medical conditions ... as we have many things to do and very little hours to do it.” When Harry is rushed to hospital, Freya often ...

Doing so “would make my life a little easier, going back into real estate, dealing with banks and so on,” he noted before adding, “But it’s not going to change my life.” Cohen also said ...

By Lovia Gyarkye Arts & Culture Critic Akinola Davies Jr.’s gorgeous debut My Father’s Shadow takes place during a consequential day in Nigerian politics. It’s June 12, 1993, and the country ...

Sundance prizewinner and BAFTA nominee Akinola Davies Jr. is set to hit the Croisette with his buzzy debut feature “My Father’s Shadow,” a semi-autobiographical film featuring “Gangs of ...

Cannes: Akinola Davies Jr.'s semi-autobiographical feature debut stars Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù as an absent father who tries to set a good example for his sons as their country burns around them.

“I call her my little mermaid,” DeVos said of her daughter. Shortly after Eliana was born, it was the healing power of fish skin that helped her recover from a deep wound on her neck.

“I’ll see you in my dreams”, a young boy’s voice tells his absent father; it’s a recurring line of voice-over that bookends the film. That, together with a potent but unexpected final ...