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My Father’s Shadow as seen by Akinola Davies Jr. - Festival de Cannes
What inspired you to begin work on this film? Urgency. I was fortunate enough to make two shorts and realized that if I only ever got to make one feature
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Akinola DAVIES JR - Festival de Cannes
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My Father’s Shadow, le regard d’Akinola Davies Jr - Festival de Cannes
Mar 25, 2026 - Racontez-nous la genèse de ce film. C’était une urgence. J’ai eu la chance de réaliser deux courts métrages et j’ai réalisé que si j’avais un long, je
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