THE ARCHIVE: QUEER NIGERIANS

By Simisolaoluwa AKANDE

ITAN FILMS - as PROD

LGBT - Completed 2023

With Nigerian queer history erased from the national narrative of Nigeria, queer Nigerians in the UK gather to tell their stories, documenting their experiences so they can never be erased again.

Festivals
& Awards

BFI London FF 2023
Experimenta - Short Film Award Nominee
Raindance Film Festival 2023
Best Documentry Short Nominee
Norwich 2023
Aesthetica Film Festival 2023
Encounters Film Festival 2023
National Competition
    • Year of production
    • 2023
    • Genres
    • LGBT, Experimental, Documentary
    • Countries
    • UNITED KINGDOM
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH
    • Budget
    • 10 - 25 M$
    • Duration
    • 25 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Simisolaoluwa AKANDE
    • Producer(s)
    • Ermias ASFAW, Joseph BUSHELL , Maxine GORDON
    • Synopsis
    • The Archive: Queer Nigerians follows five queer Nigerians living in the UK as they document their lives through audio diaries. From childhood to the present, participants share stories that explore how universal ideas of family, love, and finding oneself are obfuscated within the intersection of Blackness, African-ness, and Queerness.