Coming to Africa, screening with Q&A to follow

Monday, May 2, 2022

• Malco Powerhouse Theatre – 540 S Front Street, Memphis, TN 38103
• Doors open at 6:30 pm
• Movie starts at 7:00 pm

Screening will be FREE to the public! There is limited seating.

Check out an amazing Memphis – Ghana film collaboration that is bound to bring to joy to the entire family!

Produced by Memphis film producer, Anwar Jamison, Coming to Africa is a feature-length comedic drama that aims to shatter stereotypes and provide a refreshing point-of-view of life on the continent of Africa while entertaining a massive audience. The film explores the thoughts, feelings, ideas and beliefs of people living on the African continent.

Film synopsis: Adrian (Anwar Jamison), a philandering financial executive, has spent his entire life shunning Black consciousness and chasing corporate success. Adrian’s brother, Buck (Khalil Kain), is an activist who routinely holds community meetings in his barber shop. After a perfect storm of disappointment and discrimination, Adrian finds himself in Ghana on an amusing adventure where he meets Akosua (Nana Ama McBrown) and finds nourishment for his soul.

Watch the Trailer:

Memphis in May partners with Indie Memphis, a company that strives to create community through independent film, to present this salute to Ghanaian film. 

Part of an ongoing “Global Lens” series, seeking current or classic leading films for this popular, contemporary art-house film community. Screenings during May at local cinemas. Memphis in May partners with Indie Memphis, a company that strives to create community through independent film, to present this salute to Ghanaian film.

Films will be screened on Wednesdays throughout the month of May.

Tickets will be available for purchase at indiememphis.org or at the door.

When a man’s vengeful brother traps him in a mine shaft, his daughter embarks on a journey to rescue him.

Rated 100% Fresh on RottenTomatoes! The Burial of Kojo – Rotten Tomatoes

• Directed by Blitz Bazawule 
• Year: 2018
• Runtime: 80 minutes 

TICKET LINK – The Burial of Kojo | Indie Memphis  (tickets are $12 online + fees)

Malco Studio on the Square – 2105 Court Ave., Memphis, TN 38104

A self-absorbed Black American fashion model on a photoshoot in Africa is spiritually transported back to a plantation in the West Indies where she experiences first-hand the physical and psychic horrors of chattel slavery, and eventually the redemptive power of community and rebellion as she becomes a member of a freedom-seeking Maroon colony.

Rated 93% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes! Sankofa – Rotten Tomatoes

• Directed by Haile Gerima 
• Year: 1993
• Runtime: 2h 4m

TICKET LINK– Sankofa | Indie Memphis (tickets are $12 online + fees)

Crosstown Theatre – 1350 Concourse Ave, Memphis, TN 38104

‘Queen of Glory’ is the story of Sarah Obeng, the brilliant child of Ghanaian immigrants, who is quitting her Ivy League PhD program to follow her married lover to Ohio. When her mother dies suddenly, she bequeaths her daughter a Christian bookstore in the Pelham Parkway section of the Bronx where Sarah was raised. A follow-up on the classic immigrant’s tale, Queen of Glory provokes laughter and empathy, as its heroine is reborn through her inheritance.—Adelos Media

• Directed by Nana Mensah
• Year: 2021
• Runtime: 1h 18m

TICKET LINK– Queen of Glory | Indie Memphis (tickets are $12 online + fees)

Malco Studio on the Square – 2105 Court Ave., Memphis, TN 38104