African Film Festival:  Lady Buckit and the Motley Mopsters

African Film Festival: Lady Buckit and the Motley Mopsters

The 16th year of the African Film Festival is slated for March 25-27, 2022 at Brown Hall, Room 100 - Washington University.

Lady Buckit and the Motley Mopsters
by Adebisi Adetayo (Nigeria, 2021, 80m)

A precocious, self-absorbed little girl finds herself in wildly unfamiliar territory. There, she encounters a band of highly unusual characters who change the course of her destiny.

Proceeded by:

Begho
by Victoria Aryee & Daniel Kumah (Ghana, 2021, 7m)

Discovery of the Begho market, in West Africa, in the 16th century, through the eyes of a little girl named Kasi. Begho is a former market city, at the crossroads of several trade routes, which was occupied between the 11th and 18th centuries. As such, it is mentioned and documented in many early writings about West Africa and pre-colonial Ghana and oral tradition.