Ireke: Rise of the Maroons

Ireke: Rise of the Maroons

96 mins | Action, Romance, History | July 25, 2025

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.

Ireke: Rise of the Maroons

96 mins | Action, Romance, History | July 25, 2025

Ireke: Rise of the Maroons
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.
Producers Afristar Media, BUFF Studios
Original title Ireke: Rise of the Maroons
Directors Gbolahan Peter Macjob
Writers Gbolahan Peter Macjob

Cast

Tobi Bakre

as Prince Atanda

Demetri Turin

as Master Gerard

Alex Franklyn

as Lady Catherine

Kolawole Ajeyemi

as Adedeji