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The Eyes of Ghana

The Eyes of Ghana

The Eyes of Ghana

Dir. Ben Proudfoot
90 min

From two-timeOscar®-winning director Ben Proudfoot (Queen of Basketball, The Last Repair Shop), The Eyes of Ghana is a stunning feature documentary following 93-year-old documentarian Chris Hesse—personal cinematographer to forgotten African icon Kwame Nkrumah—as he races against blindness and time to rescue and repatriate a secret trove of over 1,000 films that captured the birth of African independence in the fifties and sixties. Yet unseen by the public, these films may not only rewrite Ghanaian and African history—but world history itself.

Film Details

Festival Programs & Themes: Documentaries
Film Type: Documentary Feature
Release Year: 2025
Runtime: 90 min
Country/Region: USA, Ghana, United Kingdom
Language: English, Twi, Ga
Print Source: Breakwater Studios
Tags: Art, Biography & History, Documentary
Program: SEE ALL MSPIFF45 FILMS

Cast/Crew

Director: Ben Proudfoot
Executive Producer: Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, John Akomfrah, Dan & Lian Gill, Max Johnson, Jonathan E. Lim, Michael Risley, Josh Rosenberg, David Treatman, Esther Wojcicki
Producer: Nana Adwoa Frimpong, Ben Proudfoot, Anita Afonu, Moses Bwayo, Brandon Somerhalder, Ethan Lewis, Vinnie Malhotra
Cinematographer: Brandon Somerhalder, David Feeney-Mosier
Editor: Mónica Salazar
Composer: Kris Bowers
Principal Cast: Chris Hesse, Anita Afonu, Edmund Addo