Portrait Of a Lone Farmer (Trailer @ CPH:DOX 2013)
Info & Tickets: http://cphdox.dk/screening/portrait-lone-farmer In the first scene, the young director presents his Danish mother and Nigerian father to the idea of the film he wants to make. We don't get to see what it says, but his suggestion to travel to Nigeria to visit his family's origins clearly unsettles their shared past. The father has moved back, Jide's mother lives in Denmark. But the drama takes place in the mutual understanding between the three, and never fills more than the impressions that meet Jide's camera when he arrives at his father's chicken farm. The idea of making a film must be approved by a local king; luckily, everyone thinks it's a good idea, and understands that his film is helping him find himself and his roots. A calm and observant film, made with a young photographer's eye and feel for atmosphere. Outside the city lies a mysterious stone - if you can lift it, you will be married soon. There are many stories of this kind in 'Portrait of a Lone Farmer', which is ultimately a (self)portrait of Jide and his father - a likeable and taciturn man, who never really found a place in Denmark. Only late in the film do we realise what really happened when the family broke up. Jide Tom Akinleminu trained at the Copenhagen photography school Fata Morgana.
