Nigeria / 2022 / 98mins / Drama / English

Adapted from the eponymous novel by Nigerian author and poet Femi Osofisan, Cordelia is a romantic period-drama where romance meets politics. This novella starts with a lecturer in a disturbed state about his marriage, which is resulting in an inability to teach his students. One of them later confronts him in his office about his shoddy lecture, and the student in question is accompanied to the lecturer’s office by another student named Cordelia. But little does our lecturer know that Cordelia is about to be at the center of a major riot at the institution.

Tunde Kelani

Tunde Kelani, born in February 1948, popularly known as TK, is a Nigerian filmmaker, storyteller, director, photographer, cinematographer and producer. He was introduced to Yoruba literature from an early stage in his life and was also greatly influenced by theatre as the Yorubas had a very strong traveling theatre tradition. He holds a diploma in the Art and Technique of Filmmaking from the London International Film School. In the 1970s, Kelani worked as a BBC TV and Reuters correspondent, and in Nigerian TV. After working many years in the Nigerian film industry as a cinematographer, he founded Mainframe Film & Television Productions, a company formed to document Nigeria’s rich culture. Some of his most successful films are literary adaptations and they include: Koseegbe, Oleku, Thunderbolt (Magun), The White Handkerchief, The Narrow Path, Maami and more recently Dazzling Mirage. He maintains this model for films. Learn More