Ghana / 2023 / 40mins / Drama / English, Twi, Dagbanli, Arabic

One fateful evening, a man named Issah tells his mother-in-law, M’ma Asana, that he intends to journey to southern Ghana in search of greener pastures. Adapting Ama Ata Aidoo’s short story, director Eric Gyamfi uncovers a vicious cycle of inequality that threatens these characters’ already precarious future.

Eric Gyamfi

Eric Gyamfi (b. 1990, Ghana) is a photographer living and working in Ghana. Eric has
 a B.A in Information studies and with Economics from the University of Ghana (2010 to 2014). He is currently pursuing an MFA at the Department of painting and sculpture, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology(2018 - ). Gyamfi is also a fellow at the Photographers’ Master Class (Khartoum, Sudan 2016 and Nairobi, Kenya 2017, Johannesburg, South Africa 2018). He was a participant of the Nuku Studio Photography Workshops (2016) and World Press Photo West African Master Class (2017), both in Accra. Gyamfi’s works have featured in A Diagnosis of time; Unlearn What You Have Learned (2021), Ecologies and Politics of the Living (vienna Biennale 2021), The 11th and 12th Bamako encounters (2017/2019) and others.
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