Film

Ireke: Rise of the Maroons

Age rating

15

Director

Gbolahan Peter Macjob

Year

2025

Stolen from a kingdom. Forged in chains. Destined to rise.

Betrayed by his uncle and sold into slavery, a young West African prince finds himself on a brutal Jamaican plantation, where a forbidden love and a looming rebellion draw him into an alliance with escaped slaves – the Maroons – forcing him to rise as the leader of a revolution that could shake the colonial world.