Discoveries from Ghana World Cinema

Three young men deal with the death of an authority figure, each in their own idiosyncratic ways.

Spurred on by mystical stories from his father, Efo Sama, and an innate compulsion and inexplicable drive to go to Ngotsie, Detor embarks on the journey to achieve his dream of becoming a warrior hunter, and unbeknown to him, fulfil the prophecy of Ngotsie.

A political leader orchestrates an evil plot to allow him to rule his people forever. He deceives them and chops off their thumbs. The people fall into a cycle of hardship and helplessness.

A Ghanaian-American woman and a Ghanaian-Indian man embark on their journey of parenthood, but the universal politics of race quickly becomes a piercing obstacle for her to overcome.

A short documentary film that follows Dr. Yaba Blay as she returns to her familial homeland of Ghana to explore the relationships between beauty, bodies and b/Blackness. In addition to recreating the groundbreaking Clark Doll Test among schoolchildren, the film follows a young hustler as he prepares for his community’s annual harvest festival by bleaching his skin. Amid the ghosts of colonialism and the gods of whiteness, The Whites of Our Eyes questions ideas and ideals of beauty in contemporary Ghana.

"Three connected generations of lost Ghanaian women fight to find meaning from both their lives and that of their young African nation, as they awaken in a strange ancestral land." (https://mubi.com/films/yaa)

Drops of Happiness tells a modern-day story of graduate unemployment and how so many young people are going beyond the normal in search of greener pastures.

Traces the stories of 16 Ghanaian women who came of age in the 1960s and 1970s. It follows their experiences (as told in their own words) as Ghana passed through periods of military, single-party and multi-party rule. These women were prominent in public life – in the law, the media, academia, politics, and various governmental and non-governmental organisations for women. Their stories tell us about the issues around which women mobilised, and their modes of activism and advocacy at home and abroad, during the ‘lost decades’. They challenge the popular perception that gender activism is a foreign import, which came from ‘the West’ and found its way to Ghana with the restoration of multi-party democracy in 1992.

In Accra, Ghana, a group of young men have formed a performance troupe based around a unique combination of acrobatics, dance and fire-breathing.

It happens whenever Hakeem Adam is at an airport, or just about to leave or arrive in Ghana. In this place of transition, between going there and being there, he can get just enough distance from his homeland to ask what it means to be Ghanaian in the 21st century.

On a quiet afternoon away from her parents’ supervision, a young girl petitions God in her new house about why things are the way they are.

The story of legendary La pioneer driver Ataa Anangbi Anangfio, presented through family photographs by his son, photographer Nii Yemo Nunu.

A young, rich girl falls victim to the ramifications of a dysfunctional family. Her father sends her sick mother packing on her way to do national service.

It all got messy when the prince plotted to assassinate the king to make it easier for him to implement new traditions and norms that suits his love life.

A man takes his partner and her lover captive and must confront issues of adultery and forgiveness.

A visual meditation in Akosombo, Ghana

Powerplay amidst the gangs in Kokomba is bringing more bloodshed. Who comes out on top in the aftermath of events?

After electric horns arrived in West Africa, honk horns virtually disappeared. But a union of bus and truck drivers in the Accra township of La kept the por por horns and invented a jazzy honking music adding bells, drums, and voices. The La drivers only perform this Por Por at funerals of their fellow union transport workers. This film documents the origins and performance of this music and features the testimonies of twenty-five senior drivers and transport industry workers who are centrally involved in its history.

This film is about a group of people traveling with the train. However during the journey the train encounters an obstacle.The rail is broken. All the passengers and the machinist leave the train looking at the rail. Can they fix the rail and can the train continue its journey?

An animation that tells the story of the migration of the Ewe people