Dika Ofoma Explores Widowhood Injustice in a New Short Film “God’s Wife”
As his fast movie, “A Aloof Monday” continues to win rounds within the movie festival circuit, Dika Ofoma pronounces his next movie, “God’s Wife,” a co-manufacturing between Omaka Movies and Clan Yujo.
In “God’s Wife”, a young widow, Nkiruka, struggles to reconcile her catholic beliefs with the demands of tradition after her leisurely husband’s brother propositions her.
Author and director of the movie, Dika says the muse for the movie stemmed from a news article about a widow ostracised by her in-authorized guidelines. He explains, “Tales enjoy hers are rampant in Nigeria. Widows are subjugated to essentially the most inhumane prerequisites, including performing rituals to instruct their innocence of their husband’s dying. To win matters worse, women are no longer allowed to own properties in some communities, leaving widows at the mercy of their in-authorized guidelines. God’s Wife is my formula of reflecting these inhumanities in society and annoying a recourse. In a formula, God’s Wife attracts inspiration from outdated Nollywood motion footage enjoy Ajadu (2001) and A Yowl for Advantage (2002) that rally in opposition to the mistreatment of widows, thus, making it additionally a formula to pay homage to the form of storytelling that formed me.”
Leading the ingenious team of workers, Dika wears the hats of author and director. He’s joined by producers Sandra Baake Aminarh, Onyinye Odokoro (who additionally stars as Nkiruka), Joe Penny (cinematographer), and editors Franklin Ogalanya and Raymond Yusuff. The solid involves Rounding out the solid are Uzochukwu Nnadi and Ego Nworji.
Onyinye, the movie’s main actor, shares her motivation for taking on the role, “Tales that highlight the plights of the on a typical foundation existence of the frequent Nigerian will always be pleased a abnormal thunder in my coronary heart and Dika tells these tales so exceptionally. Once I study God’s Wife, it turned into the compassion and tact with which he wrote it and aimed to expose it that offered it to me, and so it turned into each an honour and a pleasure to be pleased been on the venture with him at the helm. Nkiruka’s serene resilience, devotion and resistance talk volumes across the epic so remarkable so that it conjures up me for my portion in my existence. It’s my hope that of us look for God’s associate and be pleased the art however additionally rise to an awareness of the, sadly, very many Nkirukas that are dwelling amongst us.
Filming on “God’s Wife” wrapped up in November of 2023 and is currently in post-manufacturing.
