Akinola Davies, the director of "My Father's Shadow", Nigeria's first film to win an award at the Cannes film festival, is savouring his return to Lagos, the country's cultural capital, where the movie was released Friday.

"I think it's like a homecoming that's well deserved," the British-Nigerian director said in an interview with AFP.

The film, which won the Special Mention for the Camera D’Or, is an intimate portrayal of a father (Sope Dirisu) and his two sons (Godwin and Chibuike Egbo), attempting to claim back pay they're owed.

Set in Lagos on June 24, 1993, the city seems ready to explode: it's the day that strongman general Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida annuls the results of the presidential elections, held two weeks earlier and set to finally free the country from military rule.

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