African Film Archive

Love Brewed in the African Pot

1980 — Kwaw Ansah — Ghana

feature · drama, romance · flourishing

Reportedly the first privately financed Ghanaian feature film, Kwaw Ansah's drama recasts Romeo and Juliet in colonial Ghana as a fisherman's mechanic son and a wealthy settler family's daughter fall in love against her father's wishes.

Fun fact: It won the inaugural Oumarou Ganda Prize at FESPACO for an Anglophone film, the first time that honor went to a film from outside Francophone Africa.

Notes: Runtime 125 minutes; also won a UNESCO Film Award and a Special Silver Peacock Award.

Verification: verified · Sources: [1] [2] [3]

Poster source: Wikipedia