{"id":166257,"date":"2025-12-03T17:26:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T17:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/166257\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T17:26:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T17:26:07","slug":"sope-dirisu-is-a-dad-trying-to-connect-in-my-fathers-shadow-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/166257\/","title":{"rendered":"Sop\u00e9 D\u00ecr\u00eds\u00f9 is a Dad trying to Connect in My Father’s Shadow trailer."},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tSop\u00e9 D\u00ecr\u00eds\u00f9 is struggling to connect, and to protect, his two young sons as the city of Lagos and the country of Nigeria falls apart around them, in the lyrical trailer for Akinola Davies Jr.<\/a>\u2019s My Father\u2019s Shadow<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tDavies Jr.\u2019s directorial debut is set over a single fateful day. It\u2019s June 12, 1993. Nigeria has just held its first election since a military coup in the early 80s. On one side is a candidate who promises a new hope for democratic rule. On the other the incumbent, who would maintain military rule.<\/p>\n

\n\tBut brothers Akin (Godwin Egbo) and Remi (Chibuike Marlevous Egbo) aren\u2019t interested in politics. When their usually-absent father Fola (D\u00ecr\u00eds\u00f9), appears at their home in the countryside with a plan to take them with him to Lagos (he needs to reclaim four months of unpaid wages), it seems like an adventure, with the promise of some much-needed parental bonding. But after the bus breaks down and Fola\u2019s plans go awry, the planned jaunt turns into a perilous quest, with the trio trying to cross the city as the election results roll in and law and order begins to unravel.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe first trailer for the film \u2014 provided exclusively to The Hollywood Reporter by Mubi \u2014 captures the languid pace and poetic imagery of Davies Jr.\u2019s semi-autobiographical drama, a poetry that gives way to tension as the threat of violence begins to mount. \u201cYou better take these young ones home,\u201d a friend of Fola warns. \u201cThe streets are already hot!\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMy Father\u2019s Shadow premiered in Cannes<\/a>\u2018 Un Certain Regard and is the U.K.\u2019s Oscar entry for best international<\/a> film. Akinola Davies Jr. won best director at the British Independent Film Awards<\/a> (BIFA) on Sunday for his debut feature, and at the Gotham Film Awards<\/a> this week, D\u00ecr\u00eds\u00f9 took the best performer trophy.<\/p>\n

\n\tMubi pre-bought rights to multiple territories for My Father\u2019s Shadow ahead of Cannes and will bow the film theatrically in the U.S. and U.K. on Feb. 6, 2026.<\/p>\n

\n\tCheck out the My Father\u2019s Shadow trailer below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sop\u00e9 D\u00ecr\u00eds\u00f9 is struggling to connect, and to protect, his two young sons as the city of Lagos…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[97114,27993,146,97859,85,399,46,397,99221],"class_list":{"0":"post-166257","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-akinola-davies-jr","9":"tag-cannes","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-gotham-awards","12":"tag-il","13":"tag-international","14":"tag-israel","15":"tag-movies","16":"tag-sope-dirisu"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}