Director
Ben Asamoah
Run Time
81 mins
Release Year
2018
Country of Origin
Belgium, Netherlands
Language
Akan, English
Director of Photography: Jonathan Wannyn
Editor: Tom Denoyette, Simon Schuurman
Produced by: Peter Krüger
Music: Feras Daouk, Laurens Desmet
Sound Production: Kwinten Van Laethem, Matthias van Gasse
Sakawa
Part of the Documentaries Strand
There’s a treasure trove of information to be found in the poisonous e-waste in Ghana. It’s a relatively simple matter to open hard drives and gain access to the photos and personal details of former owners. With a name and address, almost anybody can be found online. Sakawa shows the fraudulent activities of the con artists cheating wealthy westerners to escape poverty, from the perspective of Belgian-Ghanaian director Ben Asamoah, who portrays the perpetrators from his own African perspective. [18]
Sakawa is nominated for the 2019 Award for Best Documentary Feature Film.