Dear Ajayi — Damilola Orimogunje

Announced yesterday. The first Nigerian production ever to enter the Giornate degli Autori competition at Venice — ten films pulled from 1,036 submissions across 114 countries. Eight years from script to the Lido. Two estranged sisters in 1990s southwestern Nigeria, forced under one roof to care for a paralysed mother; dialogue in English, Yoruba, French and Igbo. Bimbo Akintola and Tosin Adeyemi lead, Re Olunuga scores, and Orimogunje's own 2o9ine Films — the house behind All the Colours of the World Are Between Black and White — produced it. The gate opened this week. The film had been done for a year.