Sankofa Film & Video Movie Trailers
Most Popular Sankofa Film & Video Trailers
Total trailers found: 17
Dreaming Rivers Trailer (1989)
08 September 1989
A bittersweet and nostalgic short drama illustrating the spirit of modern families touched by the experience of migration.
Fathers, Sons and Unholy Ghosts Trailer (1994)
01 January 1994
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.
Home Away from Home Trailer (1993)
02 January 1993
To ease her homesickness Miriam recreates an aspect of home in her suburban British garden. Cultural memory exerts a healing power, combatting cultural appropriation, hostility towards migrants and the rift between Miriam and her Nigerian-British children.
Territories Trailer (1984)
01 January 1984
Territories is an experimental documentary about the Notting Hill Carnival. It locates the event within the struggle between white authority and black youth, in this case over the contested spaces of the carnival, and reflects on its history as symbolic act of resistance.
Young Soul Rebels Trailer (1991)
09 August 1991
Two disc jockeys have a friend's murder to solve in the fringe-group melting pot of 1977 London.
This Is Not an AIDS Advertisement Trailer (1988)
04 August 1988
This highly stylized short asserts sexual desire over fear in gay romantic relationships.
Lost Boundaries Trailer (2003)
01 January 2003
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 collective's first experimental feature film The Passion of Remembrance (1986), which he co-directed with Maureen Blackwood, another member of the collective.
Yellow Fever Trailer (1998)
20 June 1998
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 dinner, Monty has to decide if he's an Anglophile or simply prejudiced.
A Family Called Abrew Trailer (1992)
01 January 1992
Director Maureen Blackwood harnesses the distinctive style of the Sankofa Film Collective to sketch the Abrew family tree.
Perfect Image? Trailer (1989)
02 January 1989
Two actresses take us through a series of 'raps' and sketches about what it means to be beautiful and black.
Looking for Langston Trailer (1989)
31 October 1989
A black and white, fantasy-like recreation of high-society gay men during the Harlem Renaissance, with archival footage and photographs intercut with a story.
Inbetween Trailer (1992)
01 January 1992
A semi-autobiographical account of a move from Sri Lanka to Britain, which explores "being inbetween East/West, mother/father, male/female".
The Passion of Remembrance Trailer (1986)
02 January 1986
Co-directed by Blackwood and Julien, the first full-length feature film by Sankofa Film and Video offers a radical and necessary interrogation into what constitutes 'post-colonial' identity at a time of political and social restlessness in Britain.
Who Killed Colin Roach? Trailer (1983)
01 January 1983
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 police station in East London, in 1982.
Strip Trailer (1998)
01 October 1998
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 a startling discovery.
