Screening of “The Beautiful Ones”

Please join us for the premiere screening of the documentary The Beautiful Ones: Activists and Protests in Ghana, by film-makers Girish Daswani and Percy Osei-Appiah.

Description:

The Beautiful Ones tells the story of different protests in Ghana occurring between 2015 and 2022. Drawing on interviews with protest organizers and Ghanaian activists, including members of civil society, artists, and the LGBTQI+ community, this documentary examines their different motivations and reasons for protesting the Ghanaian government as well as the limitations of several protests. Returning to Ghana’s postcolonial demands of “Freedom and Justice”, this documentary foregrounds the voices of activists and artists as well as the contradictions and disappointments that activism brings.

The Beautiful Ones was a 2025 Official Selection by the Activists Without Borders Film Festival.

The screening (40 min) will be followed by a Q&A between the director Girish Daswani, associate professor of anthropology at the UofT, and Chiké Frankie Edozien, the director of NYU Accra.