Ngozi Onwurah Movies

A young girl leaves her Nigerian village to attend a ballet school in England. Fascinated by Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake, she dreams of performing as lead ballerina Princess Odette, but the…

This bold, stunning exploration of a white mother who undergoes a radical mastectomy and her Black daughter who embarks on a modeling career reveals the profound effects of body image…

Shoot the Messenger follows one man’s painful journey towards self-discovery. On the way he finds both his own attitudes and the expectations of his community challenged.