Sankofa

(Haile Gerima, US/Ghana/Burkina Faso/Germany 1993, 125 min., 35mm)

Child of Resistance: The Cinema of Haile Gerima. Haile Gerima’s American masterpiece has had a transformative impact on audiences. The film follows Mona, an African American model on a fashion shoot in Ghana who undergoes a journey back in time and place to a slave plantation in North America where she becomes Shola, a house slave. Through this process, Mona recovers her lost slave identity and confronts her ancestral experience.