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Three broken mothers, one crumbling clinic, and the kind of healing that hurts before it helps.
IMDb
74
Rotten Tomatoes
60
Audience Score
60
Google
72
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Ties That Bind (2011)

sisterhood cinemaquiet devastationrural intimacy

Overview

Drama

Adobea, Buki and Theresa are three women from different walks of life bound together by a similar pain; the loss of a child. In a destined meeting in a small village in Kroboland, the women journey together to redemption, love, life and forgiveness as they renovate a dilapidated clinic for the villagers.

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woman directorafrica

Standout Aspects

Acting

Elise, Jalade-Ekeinde, Abebrese — three powerhouses, zero egos.

Direction

Djansi lets silence do the screaming.

Production

Kroboland feels lived-in, not prettied-up for Western gaze.

Best for:Solo: When you need to ugly-cry without witnesses.·Streaming: Late night, phone face-down, tissues ready.·Friends: With your most emotionally intelligent girlfriends.
Heads up:Emotional: Child loss depicted throughout — not just backstory.
Leila Djansi

Director

Leila Djansi

ReleasedDec 3, 2011
Runtime1h 51m
StatusReleased

Vibe

Paceslow
Intensitymedium
Tonemixed
Feelheavy
Turning Point Pictures
Turning Point Media

Top Cast

Kimberly Elise

Kimberly Elise

Theresa Harper

Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde

Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde

Adobea Onyomena

Ama K. Abebrese

Ama K. Abebrese

Buki Ocansey

Kofi Adjorlolo

Kofi Adjorlolo

Father

Ebbe Bassey

Ebbe Bassey

Maa Dede

Randall Batinkoff

Randall Batinkoff

Dan Dubick

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Cultural

One of the rare Nollywood-Ghana collaborations centered entirely on women's interior lives rather than domestic melodrama.

Insight

Djansi shot in actual Krobo villages with non-professional locals as extras; the clinic renovation subplot mirrors real abandoned colonial medical infrastructure in rural Ghana.

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