The Eyes of Ghana

A quietly urgent race against time and memory, blending archival wonder with the bittersweet weight of legacy.

Directed by

Ben Proudfoot

Genres

Documentary

Starring

Kwame Nkrumah, Emund Addo, Chris Hesse

Tagline

Keep on filming.

Overview

93-year-old documentarian Chris Hesse—personal cinematographer to forgotten African icon Kwame Nkrumah—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 fifties and sixties. Yet unseen by the public, these films may not only rewrite Ghanaian and African history—but world history itself.

How it feels

Melancholic, earnest, tense and uplifting. Measured and needs your attention.

About

Memory, justice, aging, politics

Content

Mild violence and language. No gore or sexual content.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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