John Akomfrah

Directing · b. 1957 · Accra, Ghana

John Akomfrah, CBE (born 4 May 1957) is a British artist, writer, film director, screenwriter, theorist and curator of Ghanaian descent, whose "commitment to a radicalism both of politics and of cinematic form finds expression in all his films".

Known for

5.1

Venice 70: Future Reloaded

2013 · Director

5.9

Handsworth Songs

1986 · Director

7.0

The Last Angel of History

1996 · Director

5.6

The Nine Muses

2010 · Director

4.6

The Stuart Hall Project

2013 · Director

4.3

Speak Like a Child

1998 · Director

8.0

Acts Of Faith

2016 · Director

10.0

Riot

1999 · Director

10.0

Seven Songs for Malcolm X

1993 · Director

7.0

Goldie: When Saturn Returns

1998 · Director

8.0

Vertigo Sea

2015 · Director

7.0

Testament

1988 · Director

Directed43

Listening All Night to the Rain

2024 · Director

Becoming Wind

2023 · Director

Arcadia

2023 · Director

Five Murmurations

2021 · Director

Triptych

2021 · Director

Four Nocturnes

2019 · Director

Mimesis: African Soldier

2018 · Director

Precarity

2017 · Director

Purple

2017 · Director

8.0

Acts Of Faith

2016 · Director

Tropikos

2016 · Director

The Airport

2016 · Director

8.0

Vertigo Sea

2015 · Director

Transfigured Night

2014 · Director

Numen

2014 · Director

5.1

Venice 70: Future Reloaded

2013 · Director

The March

4.8

The March

2013 · Director

The Unfinished Conversation

2013 · Director

Acting

9.0

Turner: The Secret Sketchbooks

2025

John On The Void

2018

In development

The Hour of the Dog

Director