Obibini Pictures

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...

Release : 2009.02.19
Popularity : 1.572

White Afro employs an archival instructional video on how to offer curly perms or body waving services to their white clientele, ostensibly for...

Release : 2019.08.07
Popularity : 1.523

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...

Release : 2019.01.23
Popularity : 0.63

This short by Akosua Adoma Owusu offers a spellbinding, semi-autobiographical interpretation of a traditional Ghanaian folktale in which the...

Release : 2013.09.05
Popularity : 1.331

A portrait of a dilapidated Olympic-sized pool in Accra, Ghana.

Release : 2010.11.11
Popularity : 0.717

Beautiful Chrissy plays with Miss Mary Mack.

Release : 2006.09.01
Popularity : 0.658

A companion piece to Pelourinho: They Don’t Really Care About Us (NYFF57), King of Sanwi continues Akosua Adoma Owusu’s exploration of...

Release : 2020.09.17
Popularity : 0.899

Bus Nut rearticulates the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott, a political and social protest against U.S. racial segregation on the public transit system of...

Release : 2014.04.07
Popularity : 0.553

Intermittent Delight juxtaposes close-ups of batik textiles, fashion and design from the 1950s and 1960s, images of men weaving and women sewing in...

Release : 2007.09.19
Popularity : 0.522

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...

Release : 2016.02.16
Popularity : 0.277

Mahogany Too takes the 1975 cult classic Mahogany – a fashion-infused romantic drama – as its base. The film examines and revives Diana...

Release : 2018.01.25
Popularity : 0.136

This film follows Kamara, a Nigerian woman, on her journey to self-realization. When Tracy, an artist, finally emerges from her studio one afternoon,...

Release : 2018.02.08
Popularity : 0.062

A unique exploration of fashion and hairstyles in the 1970s using found footage as the subject matter.

Release : 2012.03.29
Popularity : 0.039