Last year, the announcement of the 2024 British Independent Film Awards nominations was overshadowed somewhat by the result of the American presidential elections. But while in some ways the result of said elections continues to overshadow, well, just about everything, the arrival of the BIFA 2025 nominations this morning has at least seen a shaft of light break through ever-gathering clouds. And at the tail-end of another banner year for British indie cinema, an altogether different tale of political unrest leads the 2025 BIFAs race.

Although it doesn't release in UK cinemas until next February, Akinola Davies Jr.’s directorial debut My Father's Shadow — in which Gangs Of London 's Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù stars as a man exploring Lagos with his brother and estranged father amid the 1993 Nig

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