Akin Omotoso 2016 South Africa 115 minutes
Opening Night • U.S. Premiere • Q&A with Akin Omotoso
Beginning on a train travelling from the coastal province of KwaZulu-Natal to Johannesburg, Vaya focuses on three passengers, strangers to one another bound by interlocking destinies and a shared naïveté. Imagine a South African spin on Amores Perros and you're on the right path.
Accra Power
Sandra Krampelhuber and Andrea Verena Strasser, Austria/Ghana, 2016, 49m
Accra Power focuses on the creative and artistic strategies of young Ghanaians situated at the crossroads of tradition and various belief systems, high technological and economic growth, infrastructural deficits and current energy crisis. Co-presented with Africa-America Institute.
ACCRA POWER Trailer from Sandra Krampelhuber on Vimeo.
Footprints of Pan-Africanism
Shirikiana Gerima 2017 USA 77 minutes
New York Premiere • Q&A with Shirikiana Gerima (Footprints of Pan-Africanism), and Sandra Krampelhuber & Andrea Verena Strasser (Accra Power)
The documentary Footprints of Pan-Africanism revisits the era of Ghana’s emergence into independence, when Africans on the continent and in the diaspora participated in building a liberated territory. Co-presented with Africa-America Institute. Preceded by: Accra Power (Sandra Krampelhuber, 49m).
