Project Detail

Beyond the Divide

Name: Beyond the Divide
Director: Imoje Aikhoje
Genre: Black, Docufiction, Human Rights
Released: 2025
Duration: 12 min 10 sec

Image from a dramatic reconstruction - Two white skinhead males are staring aggressively at a black man.

Documentary interview image. A black man wearing glasses in looking directly into the camera.

Synopsis

A Black British activist and a former neo-Nazi sit face to face. In a tense encounter combining direct testimony with dramatic reconstruction, each man is forced to confront what brought him to this point: one radicalised by hate, one shaped by the movement that resists it.
Chris Otokito and Nigel Bromage meet for the first time on camera. What unfolds is an unsparing examination of how far-right extremism takes root in Britain and whether dialogue across that divide is possible at all.

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Details

Year: 2025
Type of project: Shorts
Running time: 12 min 10 sec
Director: Imoje Aikhoje
Producer: Kathryn O'Reilly, Imoje Aikhoje
Executive Producer: Barbie MacLaurin, Michael Owusu
Editor: Alison Grasso, Imoje Aikhoje
Director of Photography: Ariel Artur
Production Designer: Jackson Pritchard
Sound: Blai Escayola Bosch
Composer: Felix Morgan
Principal cast: Chris Otokito, Nigel Bromage
Second Assistant Director: Alex Mill
First Assistant Director: Kathryn O'Reilly
Art Director: Walid Azam
Costume Design: Tyra Ali, Grace Priem
Colourist: Nick Wakeling
Researcher: Miriam Kamara
Sound Designer: Mihai Udateanu
Gaffer: Simon Battensby
First Assistant Camera: Steven Fairman
Spark: Reed Johnson
Second Assistant Camera: Moritz Oskar Meyer
Camera Operator: Lee Mj Daley

Genre

Black Docufiction Human Rights

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Strayborn Ltd

Imoje Aikhoje

imoje@strayborn.com

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