Round 3: Tossup 2

A 1996 film by a director with heritage from this country follows the travels across time and space of a “Data Thief” played by the film’s writer David George. In 1970, a director from this country smooth-talked a curator into accessing a museum basement containing thousands of hidden artworks, as depicted in the short You Hide Me. A castle in this country is where a model time travels in a 1993 film titled for a word meaning “go back and get,” which is often symbolized as a backwards-facing (*) bird. The Burial of Kojo and the 2023 musical version of The Color Purple were directed by a filmmaker from this country called “Blitz.” This is the birth country of the Black Audio Film Collective member who directed The Last Angel of History, John Akomfrah. For 10 points, the title word of Haile Gerima’s (“HYE-lay geh-REE-muh’s”) film Sankofa is used by what African country’s Akan ethnic group? ■END■ (0[4])

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