Nigeria Prize for Literature winner and award-winning filmmaker -Jude Idada, is set to premiere his feature film ‘Kofa’ at the 11th edition of the Africa International Film Festival (AFRIFF), holding at the Landmark Events Centre, Oniru, Lagos from the 6th to 11th of November 2022.
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 in order to marshal out an escape plan.
Speaking about the film, Jude Idada explains, “Kofa is a cinematic tour de force. The word ‘Kofa’means ‘door’ in Hausa, thus, the film is a metaphor of 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 rises to a shocking twist and an explosive climax.”
Kofa features a star cast of Daniel Etim Effiong, Kate Henshaw, Ijeoma Grace Agu, Beverly Naya, Zainab Balogun, Enyinna Nwigwe, Shawn Faqua, Charles Etubiebi, Gina Castel, Udoka Oyeka, Buchi 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.
A Thinking Man Media production in association with Creoternity Films and C-Blunt Films, it was written, directed, and produced by Jude Idada alongside a producing team of Chibuzo Okoye and Femi Ogunsanwo. It was cinematographed by Kagho Idhebor, edited by Kazeem Idris, with a riveting score composition by Ava Momoh and sound mixed and designed by George Flores. Film luminary -Steve Sodiya was the production consultant alongside an award-winning crew.
