Welcome to Jaja’s bustling hair braiding shop in Harlem where every day, a lively and eclectic group of West African immigrant hair braiders are creating masterpieces on the heads of neighborhood women. During one sweltering summer day, love will blossom, dreams will flourish, and secrets will be revealed. The uncertainty of their circumstances simmers below the surface of their lives and when it boils over, it forces this tight-knit community to confront what it means to be an outsider on the edge of the place they call home.
Whitney White
Director
Brittany Adebumola
Miriam
Maechi Aharanwa
Ndidi
Rachel Christopher
Jennifer
Kalyne Coleman
Chrissy / Michelle / LaNiece
Somi Kakoma
Jaja
Lakisha May
Vanessa / Radia / Sheila
Nana Mensah
Aminata
Michael Oloyede
James / Sock Man / DVD Man / Jewelry Man
Dominique Thorne
Marie
Zenzi Williams
Bea
Onye Eme-Akwari
Nollywood Film Clip
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If you want to feel the rush, you have to take the risk.
What seems like such a simple story of survival is so much more than that—it’s a story of family, and of war, and of destruction. It’s painful to watch, but not in a bad way. It makes its audience reflect on their own actions, and in how they are complicit in the sufferings of others as the adults in this film are. Grave of the Fireflies does not hold back from being heartbreaking, and it shouldn’t. It tells a message that needs to be heard decades after the war, and a story that cannot be forgotten by history.
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