The Mirror Boy
Directed by Obi Emelonye
Plot
The Mirror Boy is a mystical journey through Africa, seen through the eyes of a 12 year old boy, Tijan. After a London street fight, in which a local boy is hurt, Tijan's mother decides to take him back to their roots, to Gambia. On their arrival in Banjul, Tijan encounters a strange apparition, a boy 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, seemingly only visible to him. After a bruising spiritual rite of passage, The Mirror Boy takes Tijan on a mystical journey, but not all is what it seems.
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Cast
Genevieve Nnaji
Teema
Edward Kagutuzi
Tijan
Osita Iheme
Mirror Boy
Trew Sider
Rodney Marsh
Fatima Jabbe
Queen
Emma Fletcher
Miss Nugent
Peter Halpin
DC Andrews
Aisha Barry
Leema
Rohey Camara
Third Journalist
Felix Ceesay
Police Seargent
Momodu Musa Ceesay
Ballam Musa
Ify Chukwu
Police Officer
Michael Dara
Corporal
Neton De Bandiem
Coronation Dancer
Kalilu Drammeh
Second Tribal Warrior