African Film Festival
CELEBRATING GHANA’S GOLDEN JUBILEE IN 2007
Special Program
Friday, April 20, 6 PM
Saturday, April 21, 3 PM
African Film Festival continues its celebration of Ghana’s 50th anniversary of independence by presenting a series of screenings in collaboration with the national council of Ghanaian associations. Special attention will be given to the works of Ghana’s pioneer filmmaker, Kwaw Ansah, who will make a special guest appearance.
FILM SCREENINGS
Love Brewed in an African Pot
Friday, April 20, 2007, 6:00 pm
An interpretation of Romeo and Juliet set in colonial Ghana, where a young woman with a posh Cape Coast education falls in love with a semi-literate auto mechanic and outrages her father, who expects her to marry the man of his choice.
Bul Déconné
Saturday, April 21, 2007, 1:30 pm
Bul Déconné explores some of the issues of contemporary Africa, by following the trajectory of Sogui, a young Senegalese man, whose vision of the world comes into direct conflict with “the system”…
Heritage Africa
Saturday, April 21, 2007, 3:30 pm
Kwesi Atta Bosomefi, the perfect civil servant, rises through the educational and religious regimen of British colonialism, only to humbly rediscover his African heritage.
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