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This event is part of the Black Bottom Film Festival. Purchase a Festival Pass for access to free vouchers to this screening. 

Directed by Leila Djansi

Winner of Best Narrative Feature in the 2016 Savannah Film Festival, “Like Cotton Twines” is a film about Micah Brown, an African-American volunteer takes a teaching job in a remote Ghanaian village where he meets Tuigi, a 14-year-old girl who is to become Trokosi; slave to the gods, a practice of religious slavery. Accepting of her fate, her dreams of becoming a ballerina quickly fade into the shadows, Tuigi’s only desire it to be able to write her GED. Locked in a battle between history, church and state, Micah is determined to give Tuigi a life outside tradition.