Ikenga and the Leopard
A story of trust and trickery. Its soundtrack is sung by NOBI and Olaedo.
Culture Sync AI · Films and series
Stories from home, told for the screen.
Feature films rooted in Igbo and Hausa stories, a short film from Yoruba history, and short vertical drama series made for phones. Every film and series is made with AI, and every performer you see is AI-generated.
Status key: FinishedIn post-productionEarly footage madeIn development
Early AI-generated footage from the film. 8 seconds, no sound.
Feature films
Three films in the making.
The Deal
A modern story drawn from Ogbanje mythology.
Sunanna
A Hausa heroine's story, set in the American diaspora.
Short film
Finished · not yet released onlineMoremi of Ile-Ife
A ten-minute telling of the Yoruba legend of Moremi, the woman who risked everything to save her city from the raiders of the forest.
Moremi's story is told as Yoruba tradition holds it, and tellings differ in their details. Ile-Ife itself is real history: its brass, copper and terracotta heads and its potsherd pavements are known from archaeology. The film is narrated by AI voices over AI-generated, photoreal pictures that imagine the city around nine hundred years ago, and a three-minute companion film introduces its art, engineering, law and faith.
- Running time
- 10 minutes
- Language
- English
- Format
- 16:9 HD
- Release
- Not yet released online
Mini-series
Short drama, made for your phone.
Vertical series told in short episodes, each a minute or two long.
Room 7 Never Checks Out
A broke night receptionist at a Lagos hotel that only exists after midnight must settle each ghost guest's unfinished business before dawn.
The Bride Who Came Back
Poisoned at her traditional wedding, Chiamaka wakes six days earlier, with the bride's coral beads already on her wrist.
Who Did I Marry?
A Nigerian nurse in Glasgow meets her husband's family at arrivals. His mother runs straight past him and embraces a stranger, calling the stranger by her husband's name.
Ikenga: Forbidden Strength
In present-day Nigeria, the old gods are reborn as ordinary people, and only Kene, a carpenter and activist, knows he is the god Ikenga. A separate story from Ikenga and the Leopard.
None of the series has been released yet. All performers in these films and series are AI-generated. They are not real people.
Watch as they release.
The Culture Sync AI YouTube channel has the music videos now. Film clips and episodes will follow there as they are released.