Films by Branwen Okpako

Germany 2014, 45 min
by Branwen Okpako

On January 27, 2010 I visited Christa Wolf in Pankow. I told her about a film that I wanted to make. The film was meant to be called Fluch der Medea, based on her novel Medea: A Modern Retelling. Medea is a central book for me, since it engaged with subjects that were important to me in a particularly powerful and emotional way. Medea’s experiences are similar to those of an immigrant in Germany, whose culture is viewed with skepticism and disinterest and who is encouraged by her host country to

Germany 2011, 79 min
by Branwen Okpako

Branwen Okpako’s „The Education of Auma Obama“ is a captivating and intimate portrait of the U.S. president’s older half-sister, who embodies a post-colonial, feminist identity.An academic overachiever, she studied linguistics and contemporary dance in Heidelberg, Germany, before enrolling in film school in Berlin, where she met Nigerian-born director Okpako in the nineties. After living in the United Kingdom for a short period, Auma Obama eventually moved back to Kenya to mentor a young generat