We Need New Names
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Directed by Onyeka Igwe • 2015 • United Kingdom
Using the funeral of the filmmaker’s family matriarch as a jumping-off point, WE NEED NEW NAMES explores contemporary Nigerian diasporic female identity, cultural memory, and the very concept of fiction.
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