Fishguard Film Society
MAMI WATA (12A)

Director:  C. J. ‘Fiery’ Obasi/Nigeria/2023/12A/117mins/Subtitles    

This visually dazzling and charismatically acted third feature by CJ ‘Fiery’ Obasi, one of the new wave of Nigerian filmmakers, Mami Wata, fuses spiritual beliefs with inter-generational tensions, bringing mythology, fantasy, and folklore together in one confidently realised vision. 

Shot in a lustrous, high-contrast black-and-white by cinematographer Lílis Soares, with a hypnotic, otherworldly score by Tunde Jegede and oceanic sound design to transport us to a place outside time.

Cyfarwyddwr:  C. J. ‘Fiery’ Obasi/Nigeria/2023/12A/117mins/Isdeitlau

Mae’r drydedd nodwedd weledol ddisglair a charismataidd hon gan CJ ‘Fiery’ Obasi, un o’r don newydd o wneuthurwyr ffilm o Nigeria, Mami Wata, yn asio credoau ysbrydol â thensiynau rhwng cenedlaethau, gan ddod â mytholeg, ffantasi a llên gwerin ynghyd mewn un weledigaeth a wireddwyd yn hyderus. 

Wedi’i saethu mewn du-a-gwyn llachar, cyferbyniol uchel gan y sinematograffydd Lílis Soares, gyda sgôr hypnotig, arallfydol gan Tunde Jegede a dyluniad sain cefnforol i’n cludo i le y tu allan i amser.