NEW '25: Children of the West by Dipo Baruwa Etti

Borders are shut. The country is underpopulated. Citizens are required to have children.
Nia, a prominent journalist, has always sat on the fence about these regulations despite it impacting her and her husband’s lives. As she seeks to escape from the country and tell the story of what’s happening in a now isolated nation, she is forced to interrogate the cost of what she’s leaving behind. As she goes on this journey, so do others – from government officials to smugglers to couples dealing with infertility – evaluating their lives in relation to these measures. What does it mean to have a significant part of your life forced upon you? Is it the right way to rebuild a country? Should they comply or rebel?

Children of the West is a grounded dystopian drama that explores love, parenthood, and free will.