Simon Onwurah Movies

A married couple move back to his childhood village to start a family but a surprise visit from the husband's brother ignites sibling rivalry and...

Spike and his sister Anjela live in the Terrordome, a huge ghetto that all the blacks have been forced to live in. Jodie, Spike's pregnant white...

This bold, stunning exploration of a white mother who undergoes a radical mastectomy and her Black daughter who embarks on a modeling career reveals...

Using a blend of magic realism and realist drama, Memsahib Rita looks at the physical and emotional violence of racism. Shanti is haunted by both the...

A young girl leaves her Nigerian village to attend a ballet school in England. Fascinated by Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, she dreams of performing as...

Coffee-Colored Children is an autobiographical portrayal of Ngozi's, and her brother's, sad welcome to the world where the color of your skin...

This short documentary examines multiple facets of Nigeria’s cultural attitudes towards pregnancy, women’s productive options, and the...

Inspired by Maya Angelou’s poetry, Onwurah explores fears and fascinations about black women.

A chance find in a suburb of Cairo has shed new light on an all but forgotten Pharaoh, Psamtik I. Discovered in 2017, an eight-tonne fragment of a...

Early 90s London gets a vibrant dose of African culture in this mini odyssey fusing dance, music and fashion.