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Essuman, a yam seller and a single parent, gives birth to a child with cleft palate and her first instinct is to run away as she's accused of causing her child's "imperfection." She makes the attempt, but her conscience brings her back and she accepts her fate. Three years later, her son is diagnosed with cerebral palsy as he's unable to talk, sit or walk like his peers. Determined to find cure for her son, Essuman hops from hospital to hospital until she accepts that the condition is incurable. She gives up on the hospitals and seeks the help of a herbalist, a protestant pastor and then a spiritualist. They all either dupe her, take advantage of her and or mislead her. The stress of taking care of a disabled child and the criticisms drives Essuman to make certain difficult decisions.

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    • Author: Dakora
    I saw the film in French version on Canal Plus (France). I really appreciated the script and the message conveyed. The Director in this film succeeded to describe the classic evolution of people in this situation. Poverty and despair leading these people to seek alternative solutions (usually still vain). A society that mystifies and dramatizes the handicap leading with misinformation. and the State that is totally absent. Indeed these people must live on the hope of seeing a foreign health mission come to hope to see their patient have a care. Well done!
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    • Author: BlessСhild
    Living in North America, access to hospitals, doctors, and the best medicine is something taken for granted. Children of the Mountain tells the story of a child born in Africa with a cleft lip, his top lip split in half not formed properly.

    The mother has to make the decision of what to do with the child, and how to raise it. Her natural instinct is to care and love for it, but she is told by various other people of how to just dispose of him. She also tries hard throughout to find ways to cure him of the cleft lip, and other various illnesses he has.

    The movie is clearly indie, and uses non-actors for the characters. Overall they do a fairly good job, though there are times when it's just a bit much. The movie also just keeps dragging the main character through the same dilemmas and by the end it all feels like a bit too much.
  • Credited cast:
    Rukiyat Masud Rukiyat Masud - Essuman
    Adjetey Anang Adjetey Anang - Edjah
    Bex Bex - Gyamfi (as Agbeko Mortty)
    Akofa Edjeani Asiedu Akofa Edjeani Asiedu - Asantewaa
    Grace Omaboe Grace Omaboe - Naana
    Jessica Dablo Jessica Dablo - Nuku
    Mynna Otoo Mynna Otoo - Nyamekye
    Mea Vita Otoo-Panou Mea Vita Otoo-Panou - Narley
    Stacy Afful Stacy Afful - Agnes
    Eli Cecilson Eli Cecilson - Aqua
    Faustina Kumesi Faustina Kumesi - Adoma
    Agnes Vemegah Agnes Vemegah - Kitiwaa
    Silvia Tettegah Silvia Tettegah - Mansah
    William Addo William Addo - Xsavo
    Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
    Frank M. Ahearn Frank M. Ahearn - Det. Toomaloo
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