Watch the trailer of Obi Emelonye's "Onye Ozi (The Messenger)

 

The world premiere of the movie, Onye Ozi (The Messenger) will take place in London on October 18, at Lighthouse (Camberwell Road). Onye Ozi is an Igbo language film (subtitled in English) from award-winning director, Obi Emelonye (Mirror Boy, Last Flight to Abuja) which stars Okey Bakassi, Ngozi Igwebike, Stephen Moriaty, D’Kachy Obi-Emelonye, and Tony Aclet. 

According to the director, Onye Ozi is a small personal micro budget film with which he hopes to support the preservation of his native language, Igbo. For the first time in Nollywood history the film will also be premiered simultaneously online on Fri 18th Oct 2013, via Distrify on a select number of top Nollywood online sites. See the trailer of the movie below. 

Synopsis:

Metumaribe (Okey Bakassi) has just arrived in London with high expectations and a two-year plan to return to Nigeria a rich man. However, life in London with his new wife Mkpurunma (Ngozi Igwebike) is not going to plan.
On a fateful night, TJ an old English man (Stephen Moriaty) is chased, by some masked men, into a party organized to welcome Metu to London and shot in front of his eyes. As party goers run away, Metu attempts to help the man. The dying man squeezes an envelope and a bunch of keys into Metu’s hand and whispers a message as he takes his last breath.

From that point on, Metu is involved. And no matter how much he runs from it or how long it takes; he knows he must deliver the message as he promised. Now his two-year plan has become a psychological adventure that will change his life and the lives of those around him forever.