EXCLUSIVE: M88 has signed Nigerian American filmmaker Walé Oyéjidé, on the heels of his first narrative feature, Bravo, Burkina!‘s world premiere in the NEXT section of the 2023 Sundance Film Festival.
The film written, directed and exec produced by Oyéjidé tells the story of a Burkinabé boy who flees his village and migrates to Italy.
When later disillusioned by heartbreak, and haunted by memories of home, he travels through time in hope of regaining all he has lost.
Pic premiered in Park City, UT on January 23 and was nominated for the NEXT Innovator Award. Oyéjidé previously helmed the documentary short After Migration: Calabria, which is currently available to stream on The Criterion Channel.
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