Like Cotton Twines (2016)

- Directed by
- Leila Djansi
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- Ghana
- Runtime
- 1h 36m
- Rating
- 8.3 of 10 from 3 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A Ghanaian film that follows a young girl who becomes a priestess in a traditional shrine. Her story reveals the personal consequences of cultural practices.
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What happens
Like Cotton Twines is a 2016 film written and directed by Ghanaian-American filmmaker Leila Djansi. The film was an official selection to the 2016 Los Angeles Film Festival under the World Fiction section. It went on to win the best narrative feature at the Savannah Film Festival in 2016. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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