Multi-award-winning filmmaker Jude Idada is set to premiere his feature film Kofa at the 11th edition of the Africa International Film Festival (AFRIFF).
The Nigeria Prize for Literature winner explained that the film is a metaphor for the closed doors that people repeatedly encounter in their lives and the length people go to open them even when the odds are stacked against them.
“Kofa is a cinematic tour de force. The word Kofa means door in Hausa, thus the film is a metaphor for the closed doors we repeatedly encounter in our lives and the length we go to open them even when the odds are stacked against us. It uses semi-nudity, gun violence, amnesia, entrapment, suspicion, scheming, death, and a racing clock, that races to a shocking twist and an explosive climax,” Idada said.
The premiere is billed to hold at the Landmark Events Centre venue for AFRIFF.
‘Kofa’ features Daniel Etim Effiong, Kate Henshaw, Ijeoma Grace Agu, Beverly Naya, Zainab Balogun, Enyinna Nwigwe, Shawn Faqua, Charles Etubiebi, Gina Castel, Udoka Oyeka, Bucci Franklin, Lucy Ameh, Carol King, Afeez Oyetoro, Achalugo Chioma Ilozumba, Paul Utomi, Femi Olayiwole, Folu Ogunkoya, Kiki Omelli, Wale Ojo, Eucharia Okoye, and Kola “Aderopoko” Olaiya.
Written, directed, and produced by Jude Idada alongside a producing team of Chibuzo Okoye and Femi Ogunsanwo, Kofa is a psychological thriller about eight people who wake up in their underwear, to find themselves locked in a room. All they remember are their names. As an armed man comes in to pick them out, one after the other, they struggle to remember who they are, where they are, and why they are there to marshal out an escape plan.