Four years after it debuted, award-winning Ghanaian film, “The Burial of Kojo” would be the center of the Africa Film Society’s inaugural pop-up exhibition.
The exhibition will take place at the society’s Gallery Space and Theater in East Legon, Accra—which was launched late last month—on October 12 with doors opening at 1:00 PM.
Attendees can look forward to an immersive, behind-the-scenes retrospective that will showcase key aspects of “The Burial of Kojo” and its creative process—which includes costumes, scripts, storyboards, and other elements.
Following the exhibition, there will be an exclusive screening of The Burial of Kojo: Director’s Cut, beginning at 6:00 PM. While the aforementioned exhibition is free, tickets for the screening are priced at 50 Ghanaian Cedis (about 5,100 Nigerian Naira).
“The Burial of Kojo,” written, produced and directed by Ghanaian filmmaker Blitz Bazawule, first premiered in 2018 and has since garnered critical acclaim for its captivating storytelling and unique visual style. It follows Kojo, who is trapped in an abandoned gold mine, and his daughter Esi, who embarks on a mystical journey to rescue him.
Upon it’s release, the movie met with favorable reviews and broke records including the first Ghanaian film to premiere worldwide on Netflix and earned Bazawule the Best First Feature Film by a Director award at the 2019 Africa Movie Academy Awards.
Bazawule is also the brainchild of the Africa Film Society, an origanisation he founded in 2014.