The British Nigerian director Akinola Davies Jr. and his brother Wale were both toddlers when their father died. As adults, they could hardly remember him. Then Wale had an idea for movie. What if, by ...

But “My Father’s Shadow” has firmly established him as a major up-and-coming director. Yet for Davies, all the accolades don’t come close to what the movie has meant for him and his family. “Being the ...