Ama K. Abebrese

Acting

Ama K. Abebrese

Acting credits

Beasts of No Nation poster
7.6

Based on the experiences of Agu, a child fighting in the civil war of a West African country. Follows Agu's journey as he's forced to join a group of soldiers. While he fears his commander and many of the men around him, his fledgling childhood has been brutally shattered by the war raging through his country, and he is at first torn between conflicting revulsion and fascination.

Beasts of No Nation

2015

No artwork available
NR

The story of a couple, Jimah and Pabi, whose marriage turns into violence and abuse when Jimah becomes disfigured in a domestic accident.

Sinking Sands

2011

Lotanna poster
NR

A young man discovers that he must offset a debt owed by his late father. He goes through a myriad of trials and tribulations that stand to make or break him.

Lotanna

2017

Elmina poster
NR

Brings together two cultural economies that normally have little overlap – the Western art world, and the West African popular film industry.

Elmina

2010

No artwork available
NR

Tired of their usual yearly meet-up, four college friends decide on a boys’ getaway that quickly spirals into international chaos, forcing them to rely on old bonds, questionable skills, and pure luck just to make it out alive.

Boyz Trip

The Cursed Ones poster
NR

The Cursed Ones tells the story of a disillusioned reporter and an idealistic young pastor, who fight to free a girl accused of witchcraft from the clutches of a system of corruption and superstition in the heart of West Africa.

The Cursed Ones

2015

Ties That Bind poster
NR

Adobea, Buki and Theresa are three women from different walks of life bound together by a similar pain; the loss of a child. In a destined meeting in a small village in Kroboland, the women journey together to redemption, love, life and forgiveness as they renovate a dilapidated clinic for the villagers.

Ties That Bind

2011

The Burial of Kojo poster
6.5

A man is trapped in a mine shaft by his vengeful brother while his daughter embarks on a magical journey to rescue him.

The Burial of Kojo

2018

Azali poster
5.7

14-year-old Amina from northern Ghana gets sent away to Burkina Faso by her mother to prevent her marriage to an elderly man. However, fate intervenes in the form of kidnappers who bring her to Accra. What trials and tribulations await Amina in the slums of Accra? Will she ever find a way to escape?

Azali

2018

Black Savior poster
NR

A cinematic inversion of global power relations, 'Black Savior' parodies the idiosyncrasies of the white savior syndrome, through the story of the Agyeman family from Akanman, who travel to the heart of the cold continent with a goat to save the Swabian tribe.

Black Savior

2023

Lagos to Oslo poster
NR

Aaron is academically gifted, loved, loving and free. Struggling financially to remain in university education, he is introduced to a mysteriously wealthy man who promises him the world. What Aaron gets instead is isolation, confusion and vilification.

Lagos to Oslo

2020

Double-Cross poster
NR

Effie Howard a streetwise programmer's life is dramatically turned upside down when her fiancé is convicted and sentenced for a bank robbery he did not commit

Double-Cross

2014

Behind the camera