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1,546 Followers, 1,478 Following, 336 Posts - York-Fabian Raabe (@yorkfabianraabe) on Instagram: "Film ️ Business 👨💻 Cars 😎 & Life 🤠 - Director, Screenwriter, CEO 🎥 🔻 Watch BORGA on Netflix🔻".
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York-Fabian Raabe was born in 1979 in Kassel, Hesse, Germany. He is an award winning producer and director, known for Borga (2021), Between Heaven and Earth (2010) and Sodoms Kinder (2013). He has a strong interest in foreign cultures as a result of his several travels abroad.
- Empowerment Rather Than Victimhood
- 'Very Clearly Made For ghana'
- Pressure to Succeed
- Great Expectations ... and Lies
Opening in Accra, the Ghanaian capital, Borgainitially employs a documentary-like lens to portray Kojo’s early struggle against adversity. We see the young protagonist scavenging for scrap metal on a garbage dump while growing up in Agbogbloshie, one of the poorest suburbs of Accra. Amid the despair comes hope, dreams of escape from destitution tha...
Raabe spent five years writing the Borga screenplay for his first foray into fictional feature filmmaking. To ensure authenticity, Ghanaian consultants and creatives worked with Raabe from the beginning of the project. The actors speak their native language, mainly Twi, throughout a film that is subtitled and contains only a few moments of spoken G...
Born in Germany to Ghanaian parents, Boateng well knows the kind of expectations that a "Borga" faces in real life. Whenever he visits Ghana, people shout the word when they see him walking on the street. "All the Ghanaians I know, all my family members, we have this pressure to play 'Borga' as soon as we are in Ghana," he says, explaining that the...
Borgaespecially reflects on this double life. When Kojo arrives in Mannheim, he sets out to find his buddy Nabil's uncle, who is supposedly a "Borga" himself. Kojo only has one photo of him, in which the uncle is seen posing in front of a swanky car and mansion, draped in thick jewelry. When Kojo finds him, the uncle reveals the secret to his appar...
York-Fabian Raabe was born in 1979 in Kassel, Hesse, Germany. He is a producer and writer, known for Borga (2021), Between Heaven and Earth (2010) and Sodoms Kinder (2013).
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- Producer, Writer, Director
- Kassel, Hesse, Germany
- York-Fabian Raabe
Feb 2, 2021 · 02/02/2021 - We spoke to the German director, who won the Award for Best Feature Film at the Max Ophüls Prize in Saarbrücken with his debut feature
Feb 21, 2024 · Among them is the International Images Film Festival for Women in Harare (IIFF) where York-Fabian Raabe won the New Man Award, something he appreciates. Read our full interview with...
"Borga" by York-Fabian Raabe. TAVMA: Challenging the Global Storytelling ...
