Obibini Pictures Movies
- 2013
Kwaku Ananse
Kwaku Ananse62013HD
This short by Akosua Adoma Owusu offers a spellbinding, semi-autobiographical interpretation of a traditional Ghanaian folktale in which the...
- 2020
King of Sanwi
King of Sanwi82020HD
A companion piece to Pelourinho: They Don’t Really Care About Us (NYFF57), King of Sanwi continues Akosua Adoma Owusu’s exploration of...
- 2016
Reluctantly Queer
Reluctantly Queer5.82016HD
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...
- 2019
Pelourinho, They Don’t Really Care About Us
Pelourinho, They Don’t Really Care About Us52019HD
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...
- 2018
On Monday of Last Week
On Monday of Last Week02018HD
This film follows Kamara, a Nigerian woman, on her journey to self-realization. When Tracy, an artist, finally emerges from her studio one afternoon,...
- 2012
Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful
Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful62012HD
A unique exploration of fashion and hairstyles in the 1970s using found footage as the subject matter.
- 2006
Tea 4 Two
Tea 4 Two6.52006HD
Beautiful Chrissy plays with Miss Mary Mack.
- 2009
My White Baby
My White Baby92009HD
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...
- 2019
White Afro
White Afro5.92019HD
White Afro employs an archival instructional video on how to offer curly perms or body waving services to their white clientele, ostensibly for...
- 2010
Drexciya
Drexciya3.32010HD
A portrait of a dilapidated Olympic-sized pool in Accra, Ghana.
- 2007
Intermittent Delight
Intermittent Delight72007HD
Intermittent Delight juxtaposes close-ups of batik textiles, fashion and design from the 1950s and 1960s, images of men weaving and women sewing in...
- 2014
Bus Nut
Bus Nut72014HD
Bus Nut rearticulates the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott, a political and social protest against U.S. racial segregation on the public transit system of...
- 2018
Mahogany Too
Mahogany Too02018HD
Mahogany Too takes the 1975 cult classic Mahogany – a fashion-infused romantic drama – as its base. The film examines and revives Diana...