Black Cinema Club Screening Of Mirror Boy - 24.07.15

The Mirror Boy (2011) & Director Q&A Writer & Director: Obi Emelonye

Starring: Genevieve Nnaji, Osita Iheme, Edward Kagutuzi, Fatima Jabbe

Duration: 87 min

The Mirror Boy Trailer

Sometimes the system gets us to a point where we know it’s better to take our children back home for some well-meaning discipline.

The Mirror Boy is a mystical journey through Africa, seen through the eyes of a 12 year old boy, Tijan (Edward Kagutuzi). After a London street fight, in which a local boy is hurt, Tijan's mother (Genevieve Nnaji) decides to take him back to their roots, to Gambia. On their arrival in Banjul, Tijan encounters a strange apparition, a boy(Osita Iheme) smiling at him in a mirror and vanishing. Seeing the same boy in a crowded street market the next day sets in motion a chain of events, with Tijan finding himself lost. While Tijan's panic-stricken mother struggles to find her son, Tijan is left alone in the company of the enigmatic Mirror Boy.

Buses: 381, 78, 63, 363 (6 minutes walk from Peckham Library)

Doors open @ 6pm, you Mix N Mingle and have a tipple or two, then movie starts at 6:30 pm prompt.

The Director Obi Emelonye and hopefully a cast member will be in attendance for the post movie Q & A.