ANNA FROM BENIN is an extraordinary portrait of an extraordinary 17th year old. Anna is one of 31 children that her father has had with his 5 wives. As the star of her family’s orchestra, the Tek Stars, she went to study in France on scholarship – a rare event in Central Africa, where most girls don’t get the opportunity to get an education. As a result the entire countries hopes are pinned on her success. This beautiful documentary focuses on Anna’s struggles as an independent teenager with a domineering father in Central Africa and as an African teenager in France without the protection of her siblings and her five mothers. Congolese filmmaker, Monique Phoba’s portrait allows us a rare view of the lives of girls in Africa at the beginning of a new century.