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This short by Akosua Adoma Owusu offers a spellbinding, semi-autobiographical interpretation of a traditional Ghanaian folktale in which the...
Kwaku Ananse
Bus Nut rearticulates the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott, a political and social protest against U.S. racial segregation on the public transit system of...
Bus Nut
White Afro employs an archival instructional video on how to offer curly perms or body waving services to their white clientele, ostensibly for...
White Afro
A companion piece to Pelourinho: They Don’t Really Care About Us (NYFF57), King of Sanwi continues Akosua Adoma Owusu’s exploration of...
King of Sanwi
Beautiful Chrissy plays with Miss Mary Mack.
Tea 4 Two
This epistolary short film invites us into the unsettling life of a young Ghanaian man struggling to reconcile his love for his mother with his love...
Reluctantly Queer
A portrait of a dilapidated Olympic-sized pool in Accra, Ghana.
Drexciya
Me Broni Ba is a lyrical portrait of hair salons in Kumasi, Ghana. The tangled legacy of European colonialism in Africa is evoked through images of...
My White Baby
This film follows Kamara, a Nigerian woman, on her journey to self-realization. When Tracy, an artist, finally emerges from her studio one afternoon,...
On Monday of Last Week
The starting point for this colourful film is a letter from human rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois to the American embassy in Brazil. The fact that in...
Pelourinho, They Don’t Really Care About Us
Intermittent Delight juxtaposes close-ups of batik textiles, fashion and design from the 1950s and 1960s, images of men weaving and women sewing in...
Intermittent Delight
A unique exploration of fashion and hairstyles in the 1970s using found footage as the subject matter.
Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful
Mahogany Too takes the 1975 cult classic Mahogany – a fashion-infused romantic drama – as its base. The film examines and revives Diana...
Mahogany Too