Dari Sankofa Film & Video Studios


  • 1983
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    Who Killed Colin Roach?

    Who Killed Colin Roach?

    1 1983 HD

    Who Killed Colin Roach? is Isaac Julien's first film, which reflects upon the death of Colin Roach, a 23 year old who was shot at the entrance of a...

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  • 1991
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    Young Soul Rebels

    Young Soul Rebels

    5.00 1991 HD

    Two disc jockeys have a friend's murder to solve in the fringe-group melting pot of 1977 London.

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  • 2003
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    Lost Boundaries

    Lost Boundaries

    6.00 2003 HD

    Lost Boundaries is comprised of footage shot by Julien on location, in England in the summer of 1985, during the making of the Sankofa film and video...

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  • 1998
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    Yellow Fever

    Yellow Fever

    4.20 1998 HD

    Monty, a gay Chinese guy living in London, makes it a habit to date only white boys. When his handsome East Asian neighbor invites him over for...

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  • 1989
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    Looking for Langston

    Looking for Langston

    5.20 1989 HD

    A black and white, fantasy-like recreation of high-society gay men during the Harlem Renaissance, with archival footage and photographs intercut with...

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  • 1992
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    A Family Called Abrew

    A Family Called Abrew

    1 1992 HD

    Director Maureen Blackwood harnesses the distinctive style of the Sankofa Film Collective to sketch the Abrew family tree. The achievements of the...

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  • 1989
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    Dreaming Rivers

    Dreaming Rivers

    1 1989 HD

    A bittersweet and nostalgic short drama illustrating the spirit of modern families touched by the experience of migration. Miss T., from the...

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  • 1988
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    This Is Not an AIDS Advertisement

    This Is Not an AIDS Advertisement

    3.50 1988 HD

    This highly stylized short asserts sexual desire over fear in gay romantic relationships.

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  • 1994
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    Fathers, Sons and Unholy Ghosts

    Fathers, Sons and Unholy Ghosts

    1 1994 HD

    When Martin, a young father, is left alone one weekend with his son, his memories of past rejection from his own father come to the surface. As he...

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  • 1997
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    Is It the Design on the Wrapper?

    Is It the Design on the Wrapper?

    4.00 1997 HD

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  • 1989
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    Perfect Image?

    Perfect Image?

    1 1989 HD

    Two actresses take us through a series of 'raps' and sketches about what it means to be beautiful and black.

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  • 1986
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    The Passion of Remembrance

    The Passion of Remembrance

    1 1986 HD

    Co-directed by Blackwood and Julien, the first full-length feature film by Sankofa Film and Video offers a radical and necessary interrogation into...

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  • 1993
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    Home Away from Home

    Home Away from Home

    1 1993 HD

    To ease her homesickness Miriam recreates an aspect of home in her suburban British garden. Cultural memory exerts a healing power, combatting...

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  • 1998
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    Strip

    Strip

    1 1998 HD

    Strip, a young painter and decorator feels lost by the lack of challenge in his work. As he scrapes away yet another layer of wallpaper he is lead to...

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  • 2002
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    Vacuum

    Vacuum

    1 2002 HD

    A man struggles to clear a room full of litter

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  • 1984
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    Territories

    Territories

    1 1984 HD

    Territories is an experimental documentary about the Notting Hill Carnival. It locates the event within the struggle between white authority and...

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  • 1992
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    Inbetween

    Inbetween

    1 1992 HD

    A semi-autobiographical account of a move from Sri Lanka to Britain, which explores "being inbetween East/West, mother/father, male/female". The...

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