Sub-Saharan African cinema

The first African feature was shot by a writer who understood that the novel would not reach those he wrote about: Sembène took up the camera and told of a Senegalese maid taken to France, shut inside a flat on the French Riviera. Around him a cinema without an industry took shape, funded by cooperation agreements, screened at festivals and at FESPACO in Ouagadougou: Mambéty filmed two young people dreaming of Paris on a motorbike, Cissé a duel of Bambara sorcerers, Ouédraogo a village and an accused grandmother.

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• Feature filmBlack GirlLa Noire de…Ousmane Sembène · 1966A flat in Antibes, where a young domestic worker from Dakar discovers the place made for her far from her own people.Cinema
• CinemaSoleil ÔMed Hondo · 1970An actor from Mauritania films, at his own expense and over several years, the lives of African workers in Paris at the end of the sixties.Cinema
• Feature filmTouki BoukiDjibril Diop Mambéty · 1973The Dakar of 1973, where leaving for France is at once an everyday dream and an undertaking that has to be financed.Cinema
• Feature filmBrightnessYeelenSouleymane Cissé · 1987A son endowed with powers flees a sorcerer father determined to kill him, in a mythical time of the Bambara country.Cinema
• CinemaYaabaIdrissa Ouédraogo · 1989The friendship between a child and an old woman held to be a witch, filmed in Mooré with the people of a village.Cinema