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Summary Mona (Oyafunmike Ogunlano) is a Black American fashion model on a photo shoot in Cape Coast, Ghana. Through Mr. Gerima’s imaginative storytelling, she undergoes a journey back in time to a plantation in North America. There she becomes Shola, an enslaved African woman who labors in the master’s house and experiences the horrors of slaver...

Directed By: Haile Gerima

Written By: Haile Gerima

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Summary Mona (Oyafunmike Ogunlano) is a Black American fashion model on a photo shoot in Cape Coast, Ghana. Through Mr. Gerima’s imaginative storytelling, she undergoes a journey back in time to a plantation in North America. There she becomes Shola, an enslaved African woman who labors in the master’s house and experiences the horrors of slaver...

Directed By: Haile Gerima

Written By: Haile Gerima

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Production Company Channel Four Films, Diproci, Ghana National Commission on Culture, Mypheduh Films, Negod-Gwad Productions, Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR), Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR)
Release Date May 28, 1993
Duration 2 h 4 m
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Tagline One must return to the past in order to move forward
Berlin International Film Festival
1 Nomination