Highlights from NYAFF31 Opening Night with Tolu Ajayi
Oyiza Adaba, New York
OVER THE BRIDGE
Director: Tolu Ajayi
Opening Night Film
New York African Film Festival (NYAFF31)
Screening/Q&A with Director
Wednesday May 8, 2024
Film at Lincoln Center, NY
The 31's edition of the New York African Film Festival (NYAFF31), opened with the screening of a Tolu Ajayi film "Over The Bridge". The 99-minute made in Nigeria drama made its North American Premiere at the prestigious Walter Reade Theatre Film at Lincoln Center.
On hand to welcome guests from over 25 countries, was NYAFF Executive Director and Founder Mahen Bonetti. Her vision of sharing African cinema since 1993, continues to bring budding and accomplished filmmakers together annually, in the big apple.
Film Synopsis Folarin is an accomplished investment banker with a beautiful wife and a life most people can only dream of. When a high-profile government project his company was hired to manage goes awry, he starts to question everything he’s ever known to be true. After going missing, he discovers himself in a remote fishing village and starts to put together the missing pieces—but will he ever find his way back home?