Festivals and Films
Accra What's on
Top festivals in Ghana passed down from the past
Formerly known as the Gold Coast, Ghana can be considered one of the epicenters of West African culture, customs, and traditions.
Traditional festivals
Ghana marks over 70 festivals annually. The fe...
Accra What's on
1-30 Sept. The third edition of the annual Ghana Dance Festival takes place throughout September, with performers staging a grand opening at the Osu Oxford Street Mall in Accra on 1 September.
There...
Accra What's on
Local and international jazz musicians take part in this festival, partly organised by the Alliance Francaise and the Goethe Institute.
On Friday 24 April Freshly Ground, a group of Mozambique, Zim...
Accra What's on
Asa Baako was launched in March 2011, in the spectacular fishing village of Busua in Ghana's Western Region.
Festival organisers from the UK and Ghana joined together with local residents, to creat...
Accra What's on
The Ind!e Fuse festival returns this year under a new name, the Sabolai Radio Music festival.
The festival offers live indie music from across west Africa, showcasing hip hop, AfroBeat, traditional...
Accra What's on
African crops and cultural festival
The festival, which takes place in a different African country each year, promotes agriculture and its heritage.
This year the theme is “eat what they produce and produce what they eat”...
Accra What's on
Israeli Film festival in Ghana
The festival is a follow-up to the first successful edition last year.
The opening film on 4 Dec The Dove Flyer is by invitation. This is followed on 5 Dec by A Matter of Size and on 6 Dec by Bonjo...
Accra What's on
Accra I Luv Africa film festival
The theme of this four-day film festival for independent film makers of African descent is Connecting the Diaspora.
On 24 Oct there are showings of 10 shorts and panel discussions with the artists....
Accra What's on
The festival uses film to create awareness of the environment and how to keep it clean.
This year films are focusing on the link between the cleanliness of the environment and public health, in par...
Accra What's on
Accra’s growing street arts’ festival is back for its fourth year.
Organisers are now asking for submission and people willing to hold workshops on this year’s theme, Death: An Et...
Accra What's on
This carnival, also known as the Oxford Street carnival because it takes place along Osu Oxford Street, is designed to encourage new creative businesses and to attract tourists to Accra.
This year...
Accra What's on
The second edition of the francophone film festival with 10 feature films in French, two animations and 10 Ghanaian shorts in competition.
There is also a script-writing workshop. For full details...
Accra What's on
Accra hosts the second African Women’s Film Forum. The theme this year is the creation of social justice content for film and television.
On 23 Sept there is the screening of On the Border an...
Accra What's on
Thursday-Films: Full Metal Village
This movie by Sung-Hyung Cho is entitled Full Metal Village and is set in Wacken, a small country village in northern Germany. This tranquil and quiet village is awakened once a year during The Wacken...
Accra What's on
Goethe hosts the world premiere of the German movie Fisher of Kids by Steven Keen and Bastian Schneider. It tells the true story of James Kofi Annan, who was sold into Ghana´s fishing industry...
Accra What's on
Italian Movie Night during European Union Week
On occasion of the European Union Week, the Italian embassy in Accra proposes an Italian Movie Night with La Seconda Notte di Nozze by Pupi Avati, set in Italy at the end of world war two. Liliana, a...
Accra What's on
Spanish Cinematographic Soirée for European Union Week
On occasion of the European Union Week, the Spanish embassy promotes this cinematographic soiree, which consists of two film screenings of Spanish movies. Las Trece Rosas by Emilio Martínez-L&a...
Accra What's on
This cinema review, entitled Latitude Part 1, is the result of a Pan African Short Film Competition, launched by Goethe-Institut in 2007. The first five contemporary short films by young filmmakers fr...
Accra What's on
21 Feb. This feature film, entitled The Educators (Die fetten Jahre sind vorbei), tells the story of the Berlin-based student Julie, who is hopelessly indebted due because of an accident she caused to...
Accra What's on
7 Feb. Goethe Institut presents this film premiere, entitled Kweku Ananse, by Johannes Preuß and Friends.
This short film tells the adventures of the famous Ghanaian folk character Kweku Anan...
