Nigerian Filmmakers Take Their LGBTQ Film Online to Avoid Censorship

A new Nigerian film called Ife depicts a lesbian love story and is being censored within the filmmakers' home country.

In Nigeria, same-sex relationships are theoretically punishable by up to 14 years in prison.

Nollywood, a colloquial term for Nigeria‘s film industry, is not only one of the world’s largest producers of film but also has an important role to play in the country’s public perceptions of LGBTQ individuals. (LGBTQ characters and stories are usually bias or shown as evil nofilmschool.com writes.)

Ife—which means «love» in the Yoruba language—is a movie determined to take on this unjust law and show a love story that may help change social stigma in Nigeria. But that may never happen if it is censored inside the country, nofilmschool.com reports.

Nigeria is known to be one of the most homophobic countries in the world.