Billed as class and a broken marriage. Actually about who stays.
Although In Our Own Ways is ostensibly about class and a fractured marriage, the enduring power of sisterhood lies at the centre of the story.
While global cinema celebrates trauma porn masquerading as African storytelling, Yejide Kilanko's "In Our Own Ways" offers something far more sophisticated, a meditation on sisterhood that refuses to weaponise African women's pain for international consumption. This is the kind of nuanced, interior filmmaking that should be setting the standard for how African stories translate from page to screen, not the poverty spectacle that dominates festival circuits.
While global cinema celebrates trauma porn masquerading as African storytelling, Yejide Kilanko's "In Our Own Ways" offers something far more sophisticated, a meditation on sisterhood that refuses to weaponise African women's pain for international consumption. This is the kind of nuanced, interior filmmaking that should be setting the standard for how African stories translate from page to screen, not the poverty spectacle that dominates festival circuits.
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