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.