We Need New Names
2015, English. Directed by Onyeka Igwe.
A work examining contemporary Nigerian diasporic female identity through the contradictions inherent to an ethnographic reading of the funeral of the filmmakers’ family matriarch. Using personal archive to explore the concepts of female identity, diaspora, cultural memory and most importantly ‘fiction’.
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- 0h 15m
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- English
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We Need New Names is streaming on Criterion Channel in India.
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- 5 January 2015
- Country
- United Kingdom
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Who directed We Need New Names?
We Need New Names (2015) was directed by Onyeka Igwe.