The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun + A Short Film About Kids

Two films explore the ingenuity of children who refuse to let barriers stand in the way of achieving their goals.

The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun (1999)
Dir. Djibril Diop Mambéty
45min, DCP
With Lissa Baléra, Taïrou M'Baye, Dieye Ma Dieye, Aminta Fall
In Wolof with English subtitles

Senegalese director Djibril Diop Mambéty, a towering figure in cinema, is best known for films like Touki Bouki (1973) and Hyenas (1992). Yet his lesser known The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun (1999), which Mambéty completed in his final years, is an undeniable masterpiece of the medium-length form. The film follows a young paraplegic girl in Senegal who is dead set on breaking into the male-dominated world of newspaper-selling. The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun was intended to be the second film in a trilogy entitled Tales of Ordinary People that was never completed.

Restored in 2K by Waka Films in 2019 with the support of the Institut français – Cinémathèque Afrique and the CNC at Éclair Laboratories from the original negative.

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A Short Film About Kids (2023)
Dir. Ibrahim Handal
10min, DCP
In Arabic with English subtitles

Four kids from the refugee camp in Bethlehem decide to visit the sea for the first time in their life.