CULT classic 'Sankofa' (1993) will be screened locally by AfricAvenir on Saturday, 31 October. The powerful and moving film is highly acclaimed. Directed by Haile Gerima, the film has had a ...
The iconoclastic filmmaker, whose career spans five decades, reflects on his "lifetime struggle" to survive in an environment that insists on him being anything but himself. The Haile Gerima story is ...
The 4K restoration of the 1993 feature — following a woman who journeys back in time to a plantation in North America — is being re-released by DuVernay's Array banner and lands on Netflix on Sept. 24 ...
Long before Shirikiana Gerima and her legendary filmmaker husband, Haile, decided to open a video, book and coffee shop across from Howard University, they were struggling to find a domestic ...
The Ethiopian-born filmmaker’s groundbreaking Ghana-set 1993 feature, newly remastered by Ava DuVernay's Array and streaming on Netflix, explores the legacy of slavery and doubles as a study of the ...
Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Last Sunday, I did something I rarely do. I watched a movie in the middle of the afternoon. Usually, I’d save that ...
The latest in our series of writers highlighting lesser-known films is a recommendation for a distinctive early 90s drama about slavery I first saw Sankofa 15 years ago, as part of a college course on ...
Starkly aware of the history of slavery in the United States, African American model Mona takes part in a photoshoot at a Ghanaian slave fort. A mystical drummer, calling on the spirits of enslaved ...
Mypheduh Films, Inc.(MFI), will screen Sankofa, a prize-winning film in several film festivals, for the first time in Ethiopia at the National Theater at 7:30 p.m. next Sunday. Sankofa, a film written ...
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