Directed by Ngozi Onwurah • 1995 • United Kingdom
Starring Suzette Llewellyn, Saffron Burrows, Felix Joseph
Ngozi Onwurah’s radically ahead-of-its-time Afrofuturist vision WELCOME II THE TERRORDOME made history as the first theatrically distributed British feature directed by a Black woman. Nevertheless, it was largely dismissed upon its release by critics unable to see the urgency in its evocation of a gritty dystopia in which Black people have been relegated to living in a slum called the Terrordome, where simmering racial tension threatens to boil over in the wake of a young boy’s death. Twenty-five years later, Onwurah’s fusion of political commentary and genre spectacle looks positively prescient, and her ability to build an entire cosmology that connects the history of slavery to present-day police brutality is nothing less than visionary.
Directed by Ngozi Onwurah • 1988 • United Kingdom
Suffering the aggression of racial harassment, a young girl and her brother attempt to wash their skin white with scouring powder in this lyrical, starkly emotional testimony to the profound internalized effects of racism and the struggle for sel...
Directed by Ngozi Onwurah • 1991 • United Kingdom
Starring Madge Onwurah, Brian Bovell, Maureen Douglass
This bold, stunning exploration of a white mother who undergoes a radical mastectomy and her Black daughter who embarks on a modeling career reveals the profound effects of body image and the...
Directed by Ngozi Onwurah • 1993 • United Kingdom
Inspired by a poem by Maya Angelou, AND STILL I RISE explores images of Black women in the media, offering a searing critique of the myths and stereotypes surrounding their sexuality as well as an empowering counterview.
