Osengese: The Untold Story Of Osun, Osogbo And Yoruba Spirituality

OSENGESE is a feature-length documentary exploring Yoruba culture, Yoruba spirituality, Osun Osogbo, the Osun-Osogbo Festival, Ifa, Orisa traditions, Yoruba philosophy, history, food, sexuality, environmental conservation and the living traditions of the Yoruba people. Filmed in Osogbo, Nigeria, this documentary goes beyond the annual Osun Osogbo Festival to explore the history, spirituality and philosophy behind one of the most important sacred landscapes in Yoruba culture. Through conversations with Yoruba scholars, intellectuals, traditional practitioners, priests, custodians and members of the Yoruba community, OSENGESE explores questions that are often misunderstood or overlooked.

The documentary takes us through:
• Osun and the Osun Osogbo Festival
• The Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove and its importance to environmental conservation
• Yoruba spirituality and traditional religion
• Ifa and Yoruba divination
• Arugba and her significance in the Osun Osogbo Festival
• Yoruba perspectives on sex, virginity and sexuality
• Etutu and its spiritual significance
• The history and development of Osogbo
• Yoruba people in the diaspora and the global survival of Yoruba culture
• The personality, attributes and taboos of Osun
• Yoruba food, nourishment and traditional cuisine
• The Oriki of Osun and the importance of Yoruba oral poetry
• The Yoruba concept of Ori and Ibori
• The significance and symbolism of the Yoruba king’s crown
• Iyami and their place within Yoruba cosmology
• Yoruba relationships with nature, rivers, forests and sacred spaces
• The continued relevance of Yoruba indigenous knowledge and traditions in the modern world OSENGESE brings together voices from different perspectives to examine a culture that is not simply a relic of the past, but a living intellectual, spiritual and cultural system.

This is a film about Osun, but it is also a film about the Yoruba understanding of life, nature, spirituality, identity, nourishment, sexuality, ancestry and the human relationship with the sacred. If you are interested in Yoruba culture, African spirituality, African traditional religions, Ifa, Orisa, Yoruba mythology, Yoruba history, Osun Osogbo, traditional African knowledge or the preservation of African indigenous cultures, this documentary is for you.