From Obibini Pictures Studios
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2019
Pelourinho, They Don’t Really Care About Us
Pelourinho, They Don’t Really Care About Us5.00 2019 HD
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...
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2019
White Afro
White Afro5.90 2019 HD
White Afro employs an archival instructional video on how to offer curly perms or body waving services to their white clientele, ostensibly for...
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2020
King of Sanwi
King of Sanwi8.00 2020 HD
A companion piece to Pelourinho: They Don’t Really Care About Us (NYFF57), King of Sanwi continues Akosua Adoma Owusu’s exploration of...
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2010
Drexciya
Drexciya3.30 2010 HD
A portrait of a dilapidated Olympic-sized pool in Accra, Ghana.
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2009
My White Baby
My White Baby9.00 2009 HD
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...
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2013
Kwaku Ananse
Kwaku Ananse6.00 2013 HD
This short by Akosua Adoma Owusu offers a spellbinding, semi-autobiographical interpretation of a traditional Ghanaian folktale in which the...
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2016
Reluctantly Queer
Reluctantly Queer5.80 2016 HD
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...
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2014
Bus Nut
Bus Nut7.00 2014 HD
Bus Nut rearticulates the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott, a political and social protest against U.S. racial segregation on the public transit system of...
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2006
Tea 4 Two
Tea 4 Two6.50 2006 HD
Beautiful Chrissy plays with Miss Mary Mack.
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2012
Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful
Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful6.00 2012 HD
A unique exploration of fashion and hairstyles in the 1970s using found footage as the subject matter.
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2018
On Monday of Last Week
On Monday of Last Week1 2018 HD
This film follows Kamara, a Nigerian woman, on her journey to self-realization. When Tracy, an artist, finally emerges from her studio one afternoon,...
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2018
Mahogany Too
Mahogany Too1 2018 HD
Mahogany Too takes the 1975 cult classic Mahogany – a fashion-infused romantic drama – as its base. The film examines and revives Diana...
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2007
Intermittent Delight
Intermittent Delight7.00 2007 HD
Intermittent Delight juxtaposes close-ups of batik textiles, fashion and design from the 1950s and 1960s, images of men weaving and women sewing in...