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Kokoa

A pageant of animal wrestlers, including a frog, chameleon and bird, enters a chaotic contest whose spectacle becomes a playful portrait of competitive ambition.

Bahari Blue

Credits & connections

Cultural context

Niger; animal-figure stop-motion satire of traditional wrestling. Some archives attribute an earlier production date; Criterion catalogues 2001. Date unresolved.

Source credits

Moustapha Alassane

Viewing & reading

  • Criterion Channel · Needs territory check · Unknown / not checked · Subscription · Director collection listing only; exact short availability in Ghana unconfirmed; no Ghana account-level playback verified.

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