Glory(2021) | Queen Of

Mensah won the Best New Narrative Director prize at the Tribeca Festival. The film also earned two Independent Spirit Award nominations. 🔍 Fascinating Facts

Critics frequently praised Mensah's incredible feat of acting, writing, and directing. Queen of Glory(2021)

Tracks Sarah’s journey from detached avoidance to profound self-awareness as she embraces her inherited community. Mensah won the Best New Narrative Director prize

Features a brilliant dynamic with Pitt, the bookstore's ex-convict employee played by Meeko Gattuso. 🎬 Critical Reception & Legacy Tracks Sarah’s journey from detached avoidance to profound

Reviewers at the The New York Times and Variety highlighted its warm, lived-in feel and its avoidance of standard Hollywood tropes about West Africans.

The 2021 indie comedy-drama is a heartfelt, award-winning film written by, directed by, and starring Nana Mensah . It explores the life of Sarah Obeng, a brilliant Ghanaian-American PhD student, who must abandon her plans to move to Ohio when her mother dies suddenly and leaves her a Christian bookstore in the Bronx.

To bind Sarah to her lineage, Mensah beautifully intersperses real archival footage of Ghanaian funeral rites throughout the narrative.