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Three routes to Berlin for films made with Ghanaian teams
Nakom premiered in the Berlinale’s Panorama programme in 2016. Certain Winds from the South reached Forum Expanded in 2024, and the Canada, France and Ghana production Paradise premiered in Panorama in 2026. Their catalogue records show different production and sales paths.
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- 17 December 2015Nakom
Panorama announcement · Ghana / United States · 90 · World premiere announced Source 1
- February 2016Nakom
Berlinale Panorama · Ghana / United States · 90 · World premiere Source 2
- 2016Nakom
Mumbai Film Festival · Ghana / United States · 90 · Indian premiere Source 3
- 14 January 2017Nakom
Film Independent Spirit Awards Screening Series · Ghana / United States · 90 · Los Angeles members’ screening and Q&A Source 7
- February 2024Certain Winds from the South
Berlinale Forum Expanded · Ghana · 43 · European premiere Source 4
- May 2025Paradise
Cannes sales catalogue · Canada / France · Unavailable · In post-production in the sales catalogue Source 5
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- February 2026Paradise
Berlinale Panorama · Canada / France / Ghana · 90 · World premiere Source 6
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Nakom carried a Kusaal-language story into Panorama
The festival described Nakom as the first Ghanaian fiction film at the Berlinale. Its archive credits directors Kelly Daniela Norris and TW Pittman and lists WIDE Management for world sales. Mumbai’s later catalogue listed the 90-minute Ghana and United States production in Kusaal and English as an Indian premiere. Source 1 Source 2 Source 3
Certain Winds from the South arrived as a Ghana-listed production
Berlin listed Eric Gyamfi’s 43-minute adaptation of Ama Ata Aidoo’s short story as a European premiere in Forum Expanded. The 2023 film’s catalogue languages were Dagbani, Twi, Arabic and English, and the archive named Gyamfi as producer as well as director. Source 4
Paradise had a sales listing before its Berlin premiere
Global Constellation presented the work in post-production in its 2025 Cannes sales material, with international rights available excluding France and Canada at that point. The completed 2026 Berlinale entry credits companies in Canada, France and Ghana, including I60 Productions in Adenta, and identifies Global Constellation as world sales. Source 5 Source 6
Festival programmes record screening status rather than sales performance
The records distinguish a world premiere from a European or Indian premiere, and a sales catalogue from a screening. Film Independent also listed a January 2017 screening with a Q&A with co-director TW Pittman. The selected sources do not give territory contract values or the audience size for these screenings. Source 1 Source 3 Source 7 Source 4 Source 5 Source 6
Sources
- Berlinale, 2016 Panorama announcement, 17 December 2015
- Berlinale, Nakom in Panorama 2016
- Mumbai Film Festival, 2016 festival catalogue
- Berlinale, Certain Winds from the South in Forum Expanded 2024
- Global Constellation, Cannes sales lineup for 2025
- Berlinale, Paradise in Panorama 2026
- Film Independent, 2017 Spirit Awards Screening Series for Nakom