Directed credits
32
Prolific
Very extensive directing filmography.
Director
John Akomfrah
Directing
Career Snapshot
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0.9
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Directed movies: 32Directed series: 0All crew credits: 36
TMDB ID: 1037329
IMDb ID: nm0015497
Known for: Directing
Born: May 4, 1957
Age: 68
Place of birth: Accra, Ghana
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1983 - 2025
Years active: 43
Wikidata: Q3809030
Frequent jobs
Director (32)Writer (2)Editorial Consultant (1)Thanks (1)
Biography
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".
Movies
Directed Movies
Movies directed by John Akomfrah.
Listening All Night to the Rain
Director
2024 Movie
Becoming Wind
Director
2023 Movie
Triptych
Director
2021 Movie
Four Nocturnes
Director
2019 Movie
Mimesis: African Soldier
Director
2018 Movie
Precarity
Director
2017 Movie
Purple
Director
2017 Movie
8.0
Acts Of Faith
Director
2016 Movie
The Airport
Director
2016 Movie
Tropikos
Director
2016 Movie
8.0
Vertigo Sea
Director
2015 Movie
Transfigured Night
Director
2014 Movie
Numen
Director
2014 Movie
The Unfinished Conversation
Director
2013 Movie
4.9
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
Director
2013 Movie
4.6
The Stuart Hall Project
Director
2013 Movie
10.0
Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
Director
2013 Movie
At the Graveside of Tarkovsky
Director
2012 Movie
The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong
Director
1999 Movie
Riot
Director
1999 Movie
3.0
Speak Like a Child
Director
1998 Movie
The Call of Mist
Director
1998 Movie
7.0
Goldie: When Saturn Returns
Director
1998 Movie
6.6
The Last Angel of History
Director
1996 Movie
Movies
Most Popular Movies
Most viewed movie titles linked with John Akomfrah.
7.8
Scala!!!
as Self
2024 Movie
4.9
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
Director
2013 Movie
5.5
Handsworth Songs
Director
1986 Movie
Testament
Director
1988 Movie
The Airport
Director
2016 Movie
Riot
Director
1999 Movie
Becoming Wind
Director
2023 Movie
Tropikos
Director
2016 Movie
Four Nocturnes
Director
2019 Movie
Purple
Director
2017 Movie
Mnemosyne
Writer
2010 Movie
Numen
Director
2014 Movie
Movies
Other Crew Work in Movies
Additional movie credits for John Akomfrah.
Movies
Acting Appearances in Movies
Movie cast credits for John Akomfrah.
