Chosen
A US-based scholar goes home to Ghana to be enstooled as Queen Mother and finds family ties that both hold her and weigh on her.
A film by Jean-Marie Teno
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- Released
- 2018
- Genre
- Documentary
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Audio
- English · Stereo
- Quality
- FHD
- Aspect ratio
- 16:9
About the film
In 1964, after her mother’s death, fourteen-year-old Naana Banyiwa Horne becomes a mother figure to her eight younger siblings. Decades later, while teaching at a university in the United States, she is chosen to be enstooled as Queen Mother in Ghana. In July 2010 she travels home for the ceremony.
There, her sisters, family and community pull her back into ties of love and duty that can also suffocate. Motherhood and sisterhood meet and collide, old losses resurface, and cycles repeat. Around her return, Teno weaves a film of several journeys and exiles, about loss, trauma and the pull of home, and about the choices, burdens and sacrifices that come with belonging.
- Directed by
- Jean-Marie Teno
- Studios
- Les Films du Raphia, Raphia Films Production
- Distributed by
- Les Films du Raphia
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What people are saying
- International CompetitionJournées cinématographiques de Carthage2018
- International CompetitionFESPACO2019
- Official SelectionNew York African Film Festival2019
Inside the film
Cast & crew
- Jean-Marie TenoDirector, Producer, Writer, Cinematographer, Editor, Sound Recordist
- Bourama TraoréComposer
