Jide Tom Akinleminu
Filmmaker

Jide Akinleminu is a Danish-Nigerian documentary filmmaker. His award-winning works explore family and hybrid identity. Through an open narrative structure that balances distance and intimacy, he examines the tension between global migration and private alienation. Alongside his own directing projects, he works freelance as a cinematographer and teaches documentary film.
#documentaryfilm #experimentalcinema #visualstorytelling #contemporaryfilm #movingimageart
Jide Akinleminu is a Danish-Nigerian documentary filmmaker. His award-winning works explore family and hybrid identity. Through an open narrative structure that balances distance and intimacy, he examines the tension between global migration and private alienation. Alongside his own directing projects, he works freelance as a cinematographer and teaches documentary film.
The work-in-progress “Tenchi-Mankai” presents photography and fragmented video sequences of a Japanese family living a self-sufficient lifestyle, revealing a latent tension between utopian ideals and everyday reality.

Jide Akinleminu is a Danish-Nigerian documentary filmmaker. His award-winning works explore family and hybrid identity. Through an open narrative structure that balances distance and intimacy, he examines the tension between global migration and private alienation. Alongside his own directing projects, he works freelance as a cinematographer and teaches documentary film.
#documentaryfilm #experimentalcinema #visualstorytelling #contemporaryfilm #movingimageart
Jide Akinleminu is a Danish-Nigerian documentary filmmaker. His award-winning works explore family and hybrid identity. Through an open narrative structure that balances distance and intimacy, he examines the tension between global migration and private alienation. Alongside his own directing projects, he works freelance as a cinematographer and teaches documentary film.
The work-in-progress “Tenchi-Mankai” presents photography and fragmented video sequences of a Japanese family living a self-sufficient lifestyle, revealing a latent tension between utopian ideals and everyday reality.

Jide Akinleminu is a Danish-Nigerian documentary filmmaker. His award-winning works explore family and hybrid identity. Through an open narrative structure that balances distance and intimacy, he examines the tension between global migration and private alienation. Alongside his own directing projects, he works freelance as a cinematographer and teaches documentary film.
#documentaryfilm #experimentalcinema #visualstorytelling #contemporaryfilm #movingimageart
Jide Akinleminu is a Danish-Nigerian documentary filmmaker. His award-winning works explore family and hybrid identity. Through an open narrative structure that balances distance and intimacy, he examines the tension between global migration and private alienation. Alongside his own directing projects, he works freelance as a cinematographer and teaches documentary film.
The work-in-progress “Tenchi-Mankai” presents photography and fragmented video sequences of a Japanese family living a self-sufficient lifestyle, revealing a latent tension between utopian ideals and everyday reality.
Russell and Jide. Car-mount test. We are professionals.
THIS WEEK! Join us for the Detroit premiere of @sonsofdetroit_film !!
May 14, 7:30 pm Opening night film of the Cinetopia Festival at the Michigan Theatre in Ann Arbor.
May 17, 7pm Detroit Premiere! At the DIA’s Detroit Film Theatre.
Get your tickets here: https://www.cabula6.org/soddeteoitscreening
See you there!
@jeremyxido @brotherjide @mediumallure @amandaxido @michstatetheaters @detroitfilmtheatre @mommabirdius @cinetopiafilmfest @elia_gasull @kathgarrison @tb60cycle @maco7 @hardworkingmovies @poppspacking @leycomas
Nothing like a group of professionals getting together for an important sound check before shooting a key scene. @sonsofdetroit_film Co-producer/sound man extraordinaire, Russell Stewart and director @jeremyxido will be at the Q&A for May 14th Opening Night screening at the @cinetopiafilmfest and the Detroit premiere on May 17 at the @detroitfilmtheatre!
Get your tickets here: https://cabula6.org/soddetroitscreening
Part love letter, part detective story, a white man raised as a cousin in a black family reunites with his cousin to unravel the tangled story of a family, a block, and the golden age of 1970s Detroit that made them. Trailer and info: https://sonsofdetroit.com
@amandaxido @mediumallure @michstatetheaters @mommabirdius @brotherjide #soundcheck #sonsofdetroit #sonsofdetroitteam @poppspacking @grtchngnzls

@sonsofdetroit_film Réunion in Berlin with @brotherjide and @amandaxido all in our happy place :)

What I'm not able to express with words, I hope some of these pictures will reveal.
It has been a difficult few weeks, that much I can say.

What I'm not able to express with words, I hope some of these pictures will reveal.
It has been a difficult few weeks, that much I can say.

What I'm not able to express with words, I hope some of these pictures will reveal.
It has been a difficult few weeks, that much I can say.
What I'm not able to express with words, I hope some of these pictures will reveal.
It has been a difficult few weeks, that much I can say.
What I'm not able to express with words, I hope some of these pictures will reveal.
It has been a difficult few weeks, that much I can say.

What I'm not able to express with words, I hope some of these pictures will reveal.
It has been a difficult few weeks, that much I can say.

What I'm not able to express with words, I hope some of these pictures will reveal.
It has been a difficult few weeks, that much I can say.

What I'm not able to express with words, I hope some of these pictures will reveal.
It has been a difficult few weeks, that much I can say.

What I'm not able to express with words, I hope some of these pictures will reveal.
It has been a difficult few weeks, that much I can say.

What I'm not able to express with words, I hope some of these pictures will reveal.
It has been a difficult few weeks, that much I can say.

What I'm not able to express with words, I hope some of these pictures will reveal.
It has been a difficult few weeks, that much I can say.

What I'm not able to express with words, I hope some of these pictures will reveal.
It has been a difficult few weeks, that much I can say.

What I'm not able to express with words, I hope some of these pictures will reveal.
It has been a difficult few weeks, that much I can say.

What I'm not able to express with words, I hope some of these pictures will reveal.
It has been a difficult few weeks, that much I can say.

What I'm not able to express with words, I hope some of these pictures will reveal.
It has been a difficult few weeks, that much I can say.

What I'm not able to express with words, I hope some of these pictures will reveal.
It has been a difficult few weeks, that much I can say.

What I'm not able to express with words, I hope some of these pictures will reveal.
It has been a difficult few weeks, that much I can say.

What I'm not able to express with words, I hope some of these pictures will reveal.
It has been a difficult few weeks, that much I can say.

An Open Field - by Teboho Edkins. World Premiere at IDFA 2025 🎉 @idfafestival
38 min / Color / 2025 / South Africa - France - Germany.
On 10 March 2019, a #Boeing 737 MAX airplane crashed just six minutes after taking off from Addis Ababa, #Ethiopia. All 157 people on board perished, including Max Thabiso Edkins, the younger brother of director Teboho Edkins. He and his father, film producer Don Edkins, decided to travel together to the crash site in order to seek something tangible in their grief.
Directed by @tebohoedkins
DOP @brotherjide
Color by: @sergi.colorist
Grading Facilities: @sonnenstudio.filmpost / @volte_films
Production Don Edkins for Day Zero Films UG
Co-production Carine Chichkowsky for Survivance
Editing Anne Fabini
Sound Teboho Edkins
Sound Design Bertrand Larrieu
Sound Mixer: Frederik Thomsen @frederik.thomsen.sound
#boeing737 #ethiopia #documentary #independent #filmmaker #colorgrading #davinciresolve #berlin #postproduction

IDFA screenings for an open field
Screening, Date, Time, Venue
Shorts: Passages
16 11 2025
18:00
Pathé City 5
Shorts: Passages
17 11 2025
15:00
Tuschinski 3
Shorts: Passages
20 11 2025
19:00
Pathé City 4
Shorts: Passages
21 11 2025
16:00
Tuschinski 6
Shorts: Passages
22 11 2025
18:45
Pathé Noord 4

After years in the making, SONS OF DETROIT — a film by @jeremyxido — is ready to meet the world, premiering soon at @docnycfest (U.S. Competition)
Grateful to have been part of its journey as DoP, and for all the inspiring encounters along the way.
Part love letter, part detective story, SONS OF DETROIT is a film about America’s quintessential city, told through the lens of one unique family.
Follow @sonsofdetroit_film for more

Get in formation. Just three more weeks until SONS OF DETROIT has its world premiere at @docnycfest! Tickets going fast – link in bio!

"An Open Field"
a new film by @tebohoedkins
premieres at @idfafestival , November 2025,
in competition in the short documentary section.
Cinematography by @brotherjide
Montage by @anne.fabini
Color correction by @sergi.colorist

"An Open Field"
a new film by @tebohoedkins
premieres at @idfafestival , November 2025,
in competition in the short documentary section.
Cinematography by @brotherjide
Montage by @anne.fabini
Color correction by @sergi.colorist

"An Open Field"
a new film by @tebohoedkins
premieres at @idfafestival , November 2025,
in competition in the short documentary section.
Cinematography by @brotherjide
Montage by @anne.fabini
Color correction by @sergi.colorist

"An Open Field"
a new film by @tebohoedkins
premieres at @idfafestival , November 2025,
in competition in the short documentary section.
Cinematography by @brotherjide
Montage by @anne.fabini
Color correction by @sergi.colorist

"An Open Field"
a new film by @tebohoedkins
premieres at @idfafestival , November 2025,
in competition in the short documentary section.
Cinematography by @brotherjide
Montage by @anne.fabini
Color correction by @sergi.colorist
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