Film
Sambizanga
- 8:30PM
Sarah Maldoror—the first woman to make a feature film in Africa—chronicles Angola’s anti-colonialist struggle via the story of a woman’s relentless search for her husband, a resistance leader who’s been arrested and brutally imprisoned by the Portuguese authorities. Infused with the spirit of Marx and Frantz Fanon, Sambizanga is both a bracing dramatization of a pivotal moment in Angola’s fight for freedom and a rousing call to revolution.
Courtesy of the Reserve Film and Video Collection of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
Intro by scholar Yasmina Price
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