SANKOFA
SANKOFA follows Mona (Oyafunmike Ogunlano), a Black American fashion model on a photo shoot in Cape Coast, Ghana. Through filmmaker Haile Gerima's imaginative storytelling, Mona undergoes a journey back in time to a plantation in North America. There she becomes Shola, an enslaved African woman who labors in the master's house and experiences the horrors of slavery firsthand. In becoming Shola, Mona recovers and confronts her ancestral identity and experience. While enduring monstrous trauma at the hands of white men who owned people for profit, Shola's interactions with her fellow enslaved Africans are rich with humanity, respect and dignity for one another. Most notably, she connects with Shango (Mutabaruka), a rebellious African man who toils in the fields, and Nunu (Alexandra Duah), one of the few of the enslaved people to remember her life in Africa before being stolen and terrorized by European traders. (Note courtesy of ARRAY.) DIR/SCR/PROD Haile Gerima. U.S./Ghana/Burkina Faso/UK/Germany/Ethiopia, 1993, color, 125 min. In English and Akan with English subtitles. NOT RATED
AFI Member passes accepted.
Run Time: 125 Minutes
Opening Date: Saturday, February 19, 2022
Genre: Drama
