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PG15

FREEDOM WAY

Genre
Drama
Running time
83 minutes
Year
2024
Language
English, Yoruba and Pidgin
Subtitle
English and Arabic
Country
Nigeria
Director
Afolabi Olalekan
Bio
Producer
Blessing Uzzi
Cast
Debo Adedayo, Jable Ogranya, Jesse Suntele, Mike Afolarin, Femi Jacobs, Bimbo Akintola
Scriptwriter
Blessing Uzzi

SHOWTIME

Mon 09. Dec
Culture Square - Cinema 2
9:15 PM - 10:43 PM
Price: 40 SAR
Tue 10. Dec
Culture Square - Cinema 5
12:45 PM - 2:13 PM
Price: 40 SAR
When two young software engineers set up EasyGo, a ride-sharing scheme for commercial motorcyclists  in hectic Lagos, it is a godsend to riders like Abiola, who is soon depending on its customers to support his family. The success of the app, however, attracts the attention of corrupt police and government ministers who contrive to get it banned. Other stories – one about a doctor wrestling with his conscience, one about two police officers at loggerheads over the common practice of shaking down young people in the street – show that this kind of low-level violence is everywhere.. Like Lagos itself, the melodramatic storylines are fast and intense; as the characters’ stories start to dovetail, as if the city itself were pushing them together.

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