One Woman, One Bra

The title is a provocation, and One Woman, One Bra earns it. Selected for the Tribeca Film Festival 2026, this sharp, funny, and occasionally infuriating film follows three generations of women in an Abuja household over a single weekend when the youngest daughter announces she is running for the House of Representatives on a feminist platform.

What follows is a comedy of errors that is also a very serious examination of how Nigerian women navigate political ambition, generational expectation, and the particular exhaustion of being expected to be all things to all people at all times. Director Jade Osiberu, whose commercial instincts have previously produced some of Nollywood’s most crowd-pleasing dramas, pivots here to something more intimate and formally confident.

Bimbo Ademoye, in her second strong film of the year, plays the political candidate with a barely contained fury that is the film’s most compelling quality. Nancy Isime as her mother brings a complexity that the film uses brilliantly — a woman who has compromised all her life and has opinions about the cost. Keppy Ekpeyong Bassey as the grandmother is the film’s warm, wicked heart.

The Tribeca selection is deserved. This is the kind of Nigerian film that travels well because it is rooted deeply in what is specifically Nigerian while addressing what is universally human.

Verdict: Sharp, warm, and necessary. Osiberu’s most mature work.