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Do you believe obsession is a red flag?He hurts you, yet you still choose to stay. Is it love, fear, or obsession?The Checklist is a gripping Nigerian Short film written, produced, and performed by students of Praxis Digital Academy as their Group B project. This emotional Nollywood-inspired story explores toxic love, emotional abuse, obsession, and the difficult choices people make in relationships.Would you stay or walk away?
Submitted 24 September 2026 by Oluwayemi Adeyemi.
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46 festivals, funds and schemes worth this film.
- Competitioncloses in 2 days · 13 November 2026
Young Scottish Filmmaker Prize (Glasgow Short Film Festival)
checked 28 Oct 2026 · source - Festivalcloses in 13 days · 24 November 2026
Manchester Film Festival
checked 27 Sept 2026 · source - Festivalcloses in 16 days · 27 November 2026
Open City Documentary Festival
checked 27 Sept 2026 · source - CompetitionFree to entercloses in 34 days · 15 December 2026
Sony Future Filmmaker Awards
checked 27 Sept 2026 · source
Filtered by the film's length and ordered by deadline; every row carries the date we checked it and where. The film is public here, so the ones that want a premiere are marked. The festival plan says how to run the year.
The scorecard
A Nigerian student short that poses the question of toxic love head-on, but leans on synopsis rhetoric more than shown scenes.
- Storygetting there
Synopsis sets up obsession and a choice to stay or leave, but with no transcript the turn and ending can't be confirmed from what's given.
- Pictureworks
The couch two-shot and kitchen close-up use warm practical light and clean framing; the graffiti-wall shot feels like a stray insert rather than a chosen location.
- Wordsnot read
Not read: no caption track, so dialogue cannot be judged beyond the single on-screen line "Goodbye Daniel" glimpsed in one frame.
- Worldworks
Pink church-wear, a family photo on the wall, a lived-in sitting room and kitchen all read as a real, specific domestic Nigerian setting.
- Voicegetting there
The synopsis frames the film as a direct audience poll ("Is it love, fear, or obsession?"), a familiar Nollywood-PSA device rather than a distinct authorial choice.
I read the synopsis and four published frames (poster, two close-ups, one kitchen shot with a burned-in line); there was no caption transcript, so dialogue and most of the plot's turns were not seen. Read 11 November 2026. How the scorecard works
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