UNDER THE FIG TREES
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THE LEGEND OF THE VAGABOND QUEEN OF LAGOS
Director: James Tayler
The Agbajowo Collective bring a lively mix of legend and community struggle to a fable grounded in Nigeria’s real-life mass evictions. In 2017, the state government and corrupt police colluded to burn out and bulldoze the waterside shanty town of Otodo-Gbame, leaving thousands homeless. Those who resisted were beaten, jailed or worse. In the fictionalised version - called Agbojedo - young mother Jawu, living in the floating slums on the lagoon that gives Lagos its name, is compelled by the spirit of the great warrior king Egbaezen to stand firm against these forced evictions, unifying her poor but loyal community behind her in an epic multi-genre adventure containing a stash of extorted money and a magical African Grey parrot.
KRAVEN THE HUNTER
Director: J. C. Chandor
Kraven is the iconic villain of the Spiderman comics, a monstrous big-game hunter dedicated to pursuing Spidey to the ends of the earth. This is his origin story, showing how Kraven’s complex relationship with his ruthless father Nicholas Kravinoff (Russell Crowe) gives him the drive to become the most brutal, feared hunter in the world, relentlessly obsessed with vengeance. Filmed on location in Iceland, it stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson as Kraven surrounded by other vividly villainous characters: assassins, mercenaries and a voodoo priestess, Calypso, whom Kraven romances. Visceral and action-packed, this is the sixth instalment in Sony’s Spiderman Universe. Spiderman does not appear, however, because, during the period this adventure is set, he has yet to become the terrifying Kraven’s fixation.