Produced by Bazawule, Ama K. Abebrese and Kwaku Obeng Boateng,[5][6] it was filmed entirely in Ghana on a micro-budget, with local crew and several first-time actors.

[7] The film tells the story of Kojo, who is left to die in an abandoned gold mine, as his young daughter Esi travels through a spirit land to save him.

She realizes that the crow is her uncle Kwabena, who also died in the drunk driving crash seven years before, and the sacred white bird is her father, and that only she can find him.

"[16] John DeFore of The Hollywood Reporter wrote, "Viewers may worry that Bazawule's starkly gorgeous pictures aren't going to add up to anything, but Burial satisfies in prosaic as well as poetic terms, supplying an end that makes sense of its beginning.

"[1] Brian Costello of Common Sense Media wrote, "This is a lush and beautiful film, filled with dazzling images drawn as much from magical realism as from the setting itself.