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Refusing to be a victim of his circumstances, a crafty immigrant from Ghana tirelessly attempts to overcome unexpected challenges of life in Germany. Watch trailers & learn more.
- York-Fabian Raabe
Feb 3, 2021 · SYNOPSISThe two brothers Kojo and Yoofi grow up on the electronic waste dump Agbogbloshi, which is based within Ghana’s capital Accra. In order to survive, t...
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🥳 BORGA 👉🏿 Ghana Cinema release of the multiple award-winning & internationally star-studded German-Ghanaian crowd-pleaser (Eugene Boateng, Lydia Forson, Adjetey Anang, Emmanuel Affadzi, Jude...
Jan 25, 2021 · by York-Fabian Raabe. synopsis. "Borga" is Better. A Borga is a Ghanaian abroad living an excessive wealthy lifestyle. At least that's what they want everyone to believe. Cineuropa - the best of european cinema.
- Germany, Ghana
- Borga
- Borga
- 2021
- Empowerment Rather Than Victimhood
- 'Very Clearly Made For ghana'
- Pressure to Succeed
- Great Expectations ... and Lies
Opening in Accra, the Ghanaian capital, Borgainitially employs a documentary-like lens to portray Kojo’s early struggle against adversity. We see the young protagonist scavenging for scrap metal on a garbage dump while growing up in Agbogbloshie, one of the poorest suburbs of Accra. Amid the despair comes hope, dreams of escape from destitution tha...
Raabe spent five years writing the Borga screenplay for his first foray into fictional feature filmmaking. To ensure authenticity, Ghanaian consultants and creatives worked with Raabe from the beginning of the project. The actors speak their native language, mainly Twi, throughout a film that is subtitled and contains only a few moments of spoken G...
Born in Germany to Ghanaian parents, Boateng well knows the kind of expectations that a "Borga" faces in real life. Whenever he visits Ghana, people shout the word when they see him walking on the street. "All the Ghanaians I know, all my family members, we have this pressure to play 'Borga' as soon as we are in Ghana," he says, explaining that the...
Borgaespecially reflects on this double life. When Kojo arrives in Mannheim, he sets out to find his buddy Nabil's uncle, who is supposedly a "Borga" himself. Kojo only has one photo of him, in which the uncle is seen posing in front of a swanky car and mansion, draped in thick jewelry. When Kojo finds him, the uncle reveals the secret to his appar...
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