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Branwen Okpako was born in Lagos, Nigeria. She received a BSC in political sciences from Bristol University, England in 1991, followed by MFA equivalent in film directing from the German Film & Television Academy, Berlin (dffb) in 1999. She is currently an Associate Professor at UC Davis in the Department of Cinema and Digital Media.
Total trailers found: 8
01 January 1997
Landing (1997) is the story of a young Afro-German woman who wakes up to discover that she is invisible.
01 January 1999
Hans loves Fatima and he will do anything to make her feel at home in Germany. Fatima loves Hans and she will do anything to feel at home with him.
09 September 2003
Police officer Eva Meyer re-visits the orphanage where she grew up with the intent of unraveling her confused identity.
01 September 2017
The film, set in Lagos, Cape Town and Zanzibar, tells the story of Lola, who recently separated from her husband in Lagos, seeks solace in Zanzibar, hoping to forget and move on with her life.
05 September 2021
Six Black filmmakers come together to create a story about healing and belonging. A flamboyant Black trans non-binary person seems to be lost in a park in Berlin after a party.
05 January 2000
Born in Saxony, Afro-German Sam Meffire has had a chequered life. At the start of the 1990s, his face was used as the symbol of an open-minded state, before he became a police officer, friend of the minister of the interior and eventually a criminal.
07 February 2014
On January 27, 2010, Okpako visited the (East) German author Christa Wolf to discuss a film project based on Wolf's novel Medea: A Modern Retelling.
09 September 2011
The Education of Auma Obama is a captivating and intimate portrait of the U.S. president's older half-sister, who embodies a post-colonial, feminist identity.
