You Matter To Me (short film)

Описание: “A wholehearted conversation between an artist and her parents exploring their personal philosophies on joy and where to find it. All be it, joys complicated by the tensions and grief that come with life in Nigeria. Abba layers emphasis on community and everyday rituals with a playful soundtrack composed in the spirit of ‘00s Nollywood dramas that remind the artist of things we might overlook that matter most in the end.” - Art X Lagos 2025 film programming

The film was made with a grant from the ‘Creating Joy: Art, Refusal and the Worlding of Black Lives’ project- a radical, digital space that explores Black diasporic life through artmaking.


Credits:
Director: Immaculata Abba
Writer: Immaculata Abba
Cinematography: Immaculata Abba
Music: Immaculata Abba
Sound design: Kene Amaonwu
Editor: Kene Amaonwu, Immaculata Abba


Festival Screenings:

'Beyond Nollywood: Wahala Dey' at Film Africa festival, BFI London (UK)- Oct 2022
Enugu International Film Festival, Viva Cinemas (Nigeria) - Nov 2022
‘Love and War’, 27th Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur (Switzerland) - Nov 2023
‘HOME: A Piece of Us’ film exhibition, Exmouth Film Festival (UK) - Nov 2023
S16 Film Festival (Nigeria) - Dec 2023
Plateau International Film festival (Nigeria) - Dec 2024
Art X Lagos Cinema - Nov 2025


Program Screenings:

Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Los Angeles, USA) - Dec 2022
Family Film Club (Lagos, Nigeria) - Dec 2022
Africa Film Society’s Classics in the Park (Accra, Ghana) - Feb 2023
Film screening and talk - ‘You Matter to Me’ by Immaculata Abba at Jameel Arts Centre (Dubai, UAE) - May 2023
Mindful Pictures by Pynk Prysm x Covent Garden’s The Garden Cinema (London, UK) - May 2023
Joy & Memory Day at the Library of Africa & the Africa Diaspora (Accra, Ghana) - June 2023
Film Diary NYC III (New York City, USA) - Dec 2023
OTO film screening at Sowing Watermelon Seeds/CBN (Lagos, Nigeria) - Feb 2024
The African Contemporary Narrative at Fenmore Studios x Institut Français du Nigeria (Abuja, Nigeria) - Feb 2024
Screen in Transit (Abuja & Lagos, Nigeria) - Nov 2024