Set in a small village called Iyi, Mami Wata tells the tale of three women whose lives have been shaped by their people’s devotion to a powerful goddess of water, wealth, and health. Through her ...

Shot in transfixing black-and-white by Lílis Soares, director C.J. “Fiery” Obasi’s Sundance sensation beguiles with family tensions and spiritual dimensions.

Mami Wata is a multifaceted figure whose personae is as diverse as the diaspora that venerates her. A patroness of beauty, money, and all things that ebb and flow, she’s sometimes depicted as ...

‘Mami Wata” is the unseen goddess of the sea worshiped by all in an evocatively photographed black-and-white film of the same name that takes place in a coastal West African village whose ...

‘Mami Wata’ Review: A Nigerian Allegory’s Energizing Experiments in Black and White. ... The people of Iyi are losing faith in Mama Efe and, more generally, in the goddess Mami Wata.

For people who may not be aware of Mami Wata, can you explain who she is and the role she plays in some people’s lives? That’s such a deep question to dive into.

“Mami Wata” observes the clash between ancient beliefs and the aggressive march of what the West would describe as “modernity” through the perspective of people living in Iyi, a seaside ...

Hot on the tail of a recent slew of pickups and sales, Paris-based sales-producer-distributor Alief has snapped up international rights to the West African folktale “Mami Wata.” North America ...

Cinemalovers has acquired all rights in Germany and Austria for “Mami Wata,” which world premiered in the World Cinema – Dramatic section of the Sundance Film Festival, and won the ...

Shot in dense, high-contrast black and white, writer-director C.J. “Fiery” Obasi’s “Mami Wata,” unspools like a mysterious dream. It’s both inscrutable and hypnotic, delivering ...

People begin questioning their god, and, noticing that the other villages have hospitals and schools, security and law enforcement, while they rely on Mami Wata, they blame Efe for the stunted ...

In CJ Obasi's Mami Wata, the belief, or non-belief, in the potency of a local water deity in the fictional town of Iyi is the source of ideological conflict. The agenda is openly political but ...