How to Catch a Fish

About this movie

Femi, a high-flying investment banker, has spent his adult life chasing success and suppressing emotion, traits inherited from his estranged Nigerian father, Bolaji. When a last-minute custody threat forces him to attend his daughter's birthday party outside London, Femi is determined to make it, but not before Bolaji shows up uninvited, dressed in a clownish costume and ready for a ride-along. What begins as an awkward, reluctant road trip quickly spirals into a clash of unresolved tensions, cultural expectations and unspoken pain. As the hours unfold, Femi juggles urgent work calls with Bolaji's unsolicited wisdom, sardonic humour and failing health. Old wounds resurface, a childhood marked by distance, a father who never showed up, and a son who learned to stop asking. But in the quiet, inconvenient in-between moments, something shifts. Told with heart, humour and emotional restraint, How to Catch a Fish is a tender portrait of two men who struggle to express love, until they must.

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