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Sankofa

1993

On a photo shoot at a Ghanaian slave fort, an oblivious American model is suddenly cast back in time, becoming an enslaved woman on a plantation and living through the anguish of her ancestors. Haile Gerima's fierce, unflinching drama of memory and resistance.

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