Like Cotton Twines

Like Cotton Twines is a 2016 film written and directed by Ghanaian-American filmmaker Leila Djansi. The film was an official selection to the 2016 Los Angeles Film Festival under the World Fiction section. It went on to win the best narrative feature at the Savannah Film Festival in 2016.

Plot
An American volunteer teaching at a remote school in Africa tries to save one of his young students from a religious custom in which she will be offered as a slave to the gods.

Cast



 * Irene Adotey
 * Adjetey Anang
 * Miranda Bailey
 * David Dontoh
 * Ophelia Klenam Dzidzornu
 * Jay Ellis
 * Aiyanna Johns
 * Ludwig Mawuli Kalms
 * Luckei E. Lawson
 * Yvonne Okoro
 * Mawuli Semevo