Black Girl (1966)
Dir. Ousmane Sembène
With Mbissine Thérèse Diop
59min; DCP
In French with English subtitles
Father of African cinema Ousmane Sembène’s feature debut is one of the most acclaimed films ever made. Senegalese housemaid Diouana (Diop) is brought to France by the white family she works for, finding herself isolated in an unfamiliar country and trapped in a life of domestic servitude–a situation that the dignified young woman refuses to accept. Both a landmark of world cinema and a devastating indictment of colonialism’s tragic legacy, Black Girl is the first African film to receive international acclaim; Martin Scorsese called it: “an astonishing movie—so ferocious, so haunting, and so unlike anything we’d ever seen.” Sembène’s luminous black and white images have a direct expressive power, and they gleam anew in this restoration.
Borom Sarret (1963)
Dir. Ousmane Sembène
20min; DCP
In French with English subtitles.
Sembène’s first film, a neorealist look at the hardscrabble life of a wagon driver who encounters a cross-section of Dakar’s inhabitants as he makes his rounds through the streets of the city.
Dir. Ousmane Sembène
With Mbissine Thérèse Diop
59min; DCP
In French with English subtitles
Father of African cinema Ousmane Sembène’s feature debut is one of the most acclaimed films ever made. Senegalese housemaid Diouana (Diop) is brought to France by the white family she works for, finding herself isolated in an unfamiliar country and trapped in a life of domestic servitude–a situation that the dignified young woman refuses to accept. Both a landmark of world cinema and a devastating indictment of colonialism’s tragic legacy, Black Girl is the first African film to receive international acclaim; Martin Scorsese called it: “an astonishing movie—so ferocious, so haunting, and so unlike anything we’d ever seen.” Sembène’s luminous black and white images have a direct expressive power, and they gleam anew in this restoration.
Borom Sarret (1963)
Dir. Ousmane Sembène
20min; DCP
In French with English subtitles.
Sembène’s first film, a neorealist look at the hardscrabble life of a wagon driver who encounters a cross-section of Dakar’s inhabitants as he makes his rounds through the streets of the city.
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