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THE EYES OF GHANA

Year 2025
Runtime 100 mins
Language English, Asante Twi
Subtitles English
Alberta Premiere
Showtimes
Sep 21
1:00 PM The Plaza Theatre
Sep 27
6:45 PM Chinook 12

Producer Nana Adwoa Frimpong expected to be at the September 27 screening.

From executive producers Barack and Michelle Obama and two-time Oscar®-winning director Ben Proudfoot, THE EYES OF GHANA is a stunning feature documentary following 93-year-old documentarian Chris Hesse—personal cinematographer to forgotten African icon Kwame Nkrumah—as he races against blindness and time to rescue and repatriate a secret trove of over 1,300 films that captured the birth of African independence in the 1950s and 1960s.

Previously unseen by the public, these rediscovered films may not only rewrite Ghanaian and African history—but the history of the world itself.

Countries

Ghana United States
Festivals
Toronto International Film Festival
Director
Ben Proudfoot
Producer
Vinnie Malhotra, Moses Bwayo, Anita Afonu, Brandon Somerhalder, Ethan Lewis, Nana Adwoa Frimpong, Ben Proudfoot
Cinematographer
Brandon Somerhalder
Editor
Mónica Salazar
Music
Kris Bowers
Cast
Chris Hesse, Anita Afonu, Edmund Addo