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LUMUMBA is a gripping epic that dramatizes for the first time the rise and fall of legendary African leader Patrice Lumumba. When the Congo declared its independence from Belgium in 1960, the 36-year-old, self-educated Lumumba became the first Prime Minister of the newly independent state.
The film is a modern adaptation of an Ananse tale adapted to the living environment of children from Accra's notorious e-waste slum 'Agbogbloshi'. Students from the 'Bethel Evangelical Church of Ghana School' in the heart of the slum often called 'Sodom and Gomorra' created this film together with German filmmaker Johannes Preuß and Professor Bea Lundt from the University of Flensburg.
Shortfilm of 12 min about the famous folktale character Kweku Ananse - the Ghanaian 'Spiderman'. In this well known story K. A. sets out to collect all the wisdom in the world and tries hiding in on top of a tree.
Welcome to audiovisual Anansesem! Produced 2013 close to Kakum National Park in the Central Region of Ghana.
Ojukokoro tells the story of what happens when a broke manager in a money laundering petrol station, decides to rob the petrol station that employs him but along this journey finds out that there are different kinds of criminals that are also interested in the same cash.
The play explores the scores of socio-political dehumanization and injustice suffered by native Africans in the gruesome hands of the colonial masters. It emphasizes Kimathi's strong determination to refute the oppressive regime of the colonizers and pursue his people's demand for self determinism.
A West African folk tale about a spider who is presented with a dilemma when each of his six sons saves his life and he must determine which one he should reward. Animation bt Gerald McDermott.
A traditional folk tale animated by Gerald McDermott, in which a homely, unloved boy leaves his family and finds a secret paradise, then loses it all when he breaks his vow of secrecy.
DocuDrama: Goodbye Uncle Tom [1971]
Two documentary filmmakers go back in time to the pre-Civil War American South, to film the slave trade.
The film is based on true events in which the filmmakers explore antebellum America, using period documents to examine in graphic detail the racist ideology and degrading conditions faced by Africans under slavery.
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The Spook Who Sat By the Door [1973]
Based on a novel by Sam Greenlee, The Spook Who Sat by the Door chronicles the exploits of a CIA agent, the only black man in the agency. Tired of being treated as a human showcase for affirmative action, he quits and heads for the inner city where he begins forming an army of "freedom fighters" determined to overthrow the government and vanquish the white oppressors. To do so, they steal a bunch of high-tech weapons from the National Guard and bloody mayhem ensues.