The Burial of Kojo (2018)

Directors

Blitz the Ambassador

Cast

Ama K. Abebrese, Brian Angels, Cynthia Dankwa, Edward Dankwa, Emanuel Nerttey, Henry Adofo, Joe Addo, Joseph Otsiman, Joyce Anima Misa Amoah, Kobina Amissah-Sam, Mamley Djangmah, Zalfa Odonkor

The story

Esi recounts her childhood in rural Ghana, where she lives in a village in a lake similar to the real-life village, Nzulezo, built on stilts, with her father Kojo and her mother Ama, who supplies most of the family's small income through sewing. Kojo grew up in a large city but fled to the village after a tragic event, feeling that "only water could cleanse the past." Esi is close to her father, who takes her around the lake in his boat and tells her stories whose beginnings only make sense if you know their endings. An unexpected visitor — an old blind man from "the realm in-between" where "everything is upside down" — arrives in the…

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