Half of a Yellow Sun
New York African Film Festival 2014
May 7 - 13, 2014
New York Premiere. Q&A with filmmaker Biyi Bandele and cast members. Introduction at 9:45pm screening.
Based on Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s best-selling novel, Half of a Yellow Sun is set during the Nigerian-Biafran war in the 1960s and follows two middle-class Nigerian twins as their lives are torn apart by the conflict.
New York Premiere. Q&A with filmmaker Biyi Bandele and cast members at 7:00pm screening. Introduction at 9:45pm screening.
With epic grandeur, Half of a Yellow Sun tell the story of a generation living through the tumult of Nigeria’s independence and the ensuing Nigerian-Biafran War through the thorny romantic journeys of two sisters. Olanna (Thandie Newton) is married to Odenigbo (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a revolutionary who fathers a child with another woman. Her twin sister Kainene (Anika Noni Rose) is in love with a British writer (Joseph Mawle) who has come to Nigeria to teach. Playwright Biyi Bandele makes his film directorial debut with this adaptation of Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Orange Prize–winning novel. Half of a Yellow Sun may take place 50 years ago, but Bandale has fashioned it as an emotionally gripping example of contemporary Nigerian cinema, and honors the ongoing strength of that country’s women in the process. A Monterey Media release.
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