David Dontoh

Películas

Lagos to Oslo
Professor Obiora
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.
Like Cotton Twines
Father Baani
An American volunteer teaching in a school in Africa must save one of his students, a 14 year old girl from religious slavery.
The Cursed Ones
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.
Beasts of No Nation
Drama basado en las experiencias de Agu, un niño soldado de un país africano que, tras cerrar la escuela y ser sacado de su aldea y golpeado casi hasta la muerte, se vio obligado a participar en una guerra civil empuñando un arma y combatiendo a sus compatriotas.
Chronicles of Odumkrom: The Headmaster
What price must a man pay to provide education? What sacrifice must a man make to bring enlightenment to his community when the people he fights for are bent on continuing with their way of life?
Ties That Bind
Koo
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.
Somewhere in Africa
President Gabiza
In a town where blood thirsty militant subject making life simply unbearable, it is difficult to know when you will wake up to a brilliant morning sunshine which promises a day of solemnity. In the wake of the seeming normalcy of a capricious life, a new regime is established in Kimbala town: a superlative regime of Yusuf Mombasa. Thirstier and fiercer than his predecessors, the people of Kimbala are dumb by his ruthlessness. The strongest of men are hit down to noting more than murmur. The influential are coiled in their shells in total stillness and the civilians hide behind hypocritical facet of patriotism. Who will dare stop Mombasa? ( Chris Twum )
Los Muertos
The Chief
El film está protagonizado por el teniente Brian Murphy que deberá formar equipo con Daniel Dembele para enfrentarse y sobrevivir al terrorífico peligro que los acecha encarnado en una horda de muertos vivientes en el continente africano.
Warrior Queen
Tells the true story of an African Queen named Nana Yaa Asantewaa and the events that led her to rise up in arms against the British in the early 1900's.
No Time to Die
Asante
Asante, a hearse driver in Ghana, wants a wife. His profession puts most women off. He falls in love with a client whose mother has died, and manages to win her over. But her father forbids marriage to a hearse driver. Asante persists and becomes the first hearse driver in Accra to get married.
Welcome Home
Another one of those stories we hear almost every day: refugees are picked up on Austria's border after a dramatic chase. And then nothing more is heard of them. The problem is apparently resolved in the usual way, through incarceration and deportation. But it's different this time: the story continues in Ghana, where everything is suddenly turned upside down.
See You, Amsterdam
A Ghanaian woman, Nana Ama, finds out at airport Schiphol that her papers are false. Her dream to start a new life in the United States falls apart. After escaping the authorities, she tries to earn a living in the Bijlmer in Amsterdam.
Deadly Voyage
When stowaways are found on board a Russian cargo ship, some of the officers and crew decide to dispose of them at sea. The last time they had a stowaway on board, the ship was fined heavily and black marks entered into their records, when he made it off the ship into a foreign port.
Harvest at 17
This is a story of two teenage love birds, who defied parental counsel and chose to live their lives as they saw fit. It is a story of youthful exuberance and experimentation with adult lifestyle between young people that ends them in trouble.
Aya Minnow
Koby
The tragic story of a father who wants a "good" man for his daughter who is bent on having her own way and the house boy caught in between.
Sika Sunsum
Agya Ntow introduces his wife, Rose, to Jimmy Cash as his niece for financial consideration. Soon, Jimmy starts dating Rose which causes a rift between Agya Ntow and Rose.
Heritage Africa
Kpakpo Allotey
The story of Quincy Bosomfield who is the product of colonial education and has risen to become the district commissioner. In the process, he abandons his African heritage and all that has real meaning to him.
Nana Akoto
Writer
A comic tale about a stubborn village elder who resists slipping gently into retirement. Directed by King Ampaw.
Kukurantumi
Bob
Addey is a lorry driver and an industrious family man who makes ends meet by plying his trade between Accra, the capital city, and his village , Kukurantumi. When he loses his job for reasons beyond his control, he plots a marriage between his daughter, Abena, and an affluent businessman but she refuses the union because she loved another. Abena disobeys her father Addey and, with Bob, the poor young man she loves, elopes to Accra where things worsen.