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DEJA NU | #DIFF2024 Trailers. Centre for Creative Arts. After several years of her disappearance, a reticent Ama returns to the city where she was gifted to a white art-collector as a little girl...
Public Toilet: Directed by Fruit Chan. With Tsuyoshi Abe, Zhe Ma, Jang Hyuk, Zo In-sung. The story of Dong Dong, the God of Public Toilets - so called because he was born and abandoned by his mother in a public toilet and later rescued out of the sewage by his grandmother.
Evoking the vitality of African New Wave gem Touki Bouki, this pulpy revenge tale marks the bold and visually arresting debut of Ghanaian filmmaker Kofi Ofosu-Yeboah. A spunky genre mash-up of road movie and gangster film that’s alive to the music of Afrobeat and the rhythms of present-day Accra.
Public Toilet Africa is several things—a revenge tale, a road trip, a tale of a city and a remote village; a courtroom drama—and if the ride isn’t always smooth, the end result is a rebellious and oneiric portrait of a country wrestling with the specters of colonialism.
With Briggitte Appiah, David Klu, Ricky Adelayitor, Brimah Watara. When reticent Ama returns to the city where she was gifted to a white art collector as a little girl, the quest to reclaim her stolen childhood quickly goes into a tailspin when she recruits an ex-lover on her mission.
This mini-epic finds Hong Kong's most independent-minded auteur in thoughtful mood, contemplating the accidents of fate and the vagaries of free-will from the other side of the U-bend. Thoughtful, but as playful as ever.
Public Toilet Africa is a film directed by Kofi Ofosu-Yeboah with Briggitte Appiah, David Klu, Ricky Kofi Adelayitar, Brimah Watara, Dickson Owusu. Year: 2021. Original title: Amansa tiafi.
