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Reluctantly Queer
- Runtime:
- 8 min.
- Year of Production:
- 2016
- Country:
- Ghana/USA
- Director:
- Cast:
- Kwame Edwin Otu
- Production Company:
- Obibini Pictures, LLC
- Berlinale Section:
- Shorts
- Berlinale Category:
- Short Film
This epistolary film invites us into the unsettling life of a young Ghanaian man struggling to reconcile his love for his mother with his love for the same-sex desire amid the increased tensions incited by same-sex politics in Ghana. Focused on a letter that is ultimately filled with hesitation and uncertainity, RELUCTANTLY QUEER both disrobes and questions what it means to be queer for this time in this space.
BIOGRAFIE Akosua Adoma Owusu
Born in Alexandria, USA in 1984, she studied art and media at the University of Virginia followed by film and art at the California Institute of
the Arts. Her films have won many awards at international festivals. “Indiewire” recently named her amongst the six pre-eminent avant- garde filmmakers redefining cinema. She is an alumnus of the Berlinale Talents and lives and works in the USA and Ghana.
FILMOGRAFIE Akosua Adoma Owusu (selection)
2016 Reluctantly Queer
2014 Bus Nut
2013 Kwaku Ananse
2012 Split Ends
2010 Drexciya
2009 Me Broni Ba
2008 Revealing Roots
2008 Boyant: A Michael Jordan in a Speedo is Far Beyond the Horizon
2007 Intermittent Delight
2006 Tea 4 Two
2005 Ajube Kete
@IMDb Akosua Adoma Owusu
Trailer
Interview with Aaron Alexis Biscombe and Akosua Adoma Owusu