Ekwa Msangi is a Tanzanian-American filmmaker who directs both TV and film. Her award-winning and critically acclaimed feature film Farewell Amor premiered in competition at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival.
Films
Farewell Amor
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(2020)
After 17 years in exile, Walter finally reunites with his family after being forced to leave Angola for New York City. We meet the family as Walter is picking up his wife, Esther, and daughter, Sylvia, from the airport to bring them home to his one-bedroom Brooklyn apartment. They quickly discover how the years of separation have turned them into absolute strangers.
Soko Sonko
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(2014)
When his wife falls sick, a well-intended dad braves the fires and goes where no man has gone before — the hair market — to get his daughter's hair braided before school begins.
Taharuki
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(2011)
Set against the backdrop of the start of the devastating post-election violence that took place in Kenya in 2007-2008, which left tens of thousands of Kenyans homeless, traumatized or dead, Taharuki is the fictional account of a man and woman from opposing ethnic tribes who're working for an underground liberation movement to expose a child-trafficking cartel when some-thing goes wrong, and they're forced to make tough choices to stay alive and complete their mission.
Dollar Van
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(2006)
A recently immigrated Jamaican working as a dollar van driver in Brooklyn grapples with the meaning of the American dream.
