SANKOFA
Directed by Haile Gerima
Ghana, Jamaica, USA, 1993 , 125 min.
Sunday Retrospective Series
CFAF’s Top 10 African Films
Sankofa in the West African Akan language means returning to your past, recovering what you’ve lost, and moving forward. A parable of African-American enslavement and resistance, the film tells the story of Mona, an African-American fashion model on a photo shoot at Cape Coast Castle in Ghana, who is transported back in time to a sugar cane plantation in the Americas where she becomes Shola, an enslaved African woman. She experiences firsthand the brutality of the slave system.
In English.
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Screening Time/Location
Sunday, February 15th 2015, 2:30pm at the Moriarty Arts and Humanities Building, Room 104
Note: Sunday Retrospective Series
CFAF’s Top 10 African Films
All films are free and open to the public on a first-come, first-served basis.