The Battle of Algiers

The Battle of Algiers

Tracing the struggle of the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale to gain freedom from French colonial rule as seen through the eyes of Ali from...

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Sambizanga

Sambizanga

Domingos is a member of an African liberation movement, arrested by the Portuguese secret police, after bloody events in Angola. His wife goes from...

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The Panafrican Festival in Algiers

The Panafrican Festival in Algiers

Festival panafricain d'Alger is a documentary by William Klein of the music and dance festival held 40 years ago in the streets and in venues all...

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Le Passager du Tassili

Le Passager du Tassili

Omar, a young Franco-Algerian from La Garenne-Colombes, decided to spend his vacation in the country of his ancestors, Algeria. On his return, he...

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L'hôpital de Leningrad

L'hôpital de Leningrad

A story of political imprisonment set in a mental hospital where the Stalin state police placed whoever their opponents were.

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Monangambeee

Monangambeee

Filmmaker-griot coming from the theater, it was with a camera, while the war in Vietnam occupied everyone's minds, that Sarah Maldoror gave...

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Dessert for Constance

Dessert for Constance

Bokolo and Mamadou, sweepers in the city of Paris, are looking for a way to pay for the return home of one of their sick comrades. When they find...

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Aimé Césaire at the End of Daybreak

Aimé Césaire at the End of Daybreak

Documentary on the négritude movement through one of its founders, Aimé Césaire.

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Guns for Banta

Guns for Banta

Guns for Banta is the first feature-length film by Sarah Maldoror. Shot in Guinea-Bissau, Guns for Banta follows the life and untimely death of Awa...

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Aimé Césaire, Un homme une terre

Aimé Césaire, Un homme une terre

Alternating interview segments, shots of Martinique landscapes and scenes from Aimé Césaire's play La Tragédie du roi Christophe (1963), Sarah...

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Léon G. Damas

Léon G. Damas

Léon G. Damas (1912–1978) was the first poet to “live Négritude”, according to the Senegalese poet, politician and cultural theorist Léopold Sédar...

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Toto Bissainthe

Toto Bissainthe

A portrait of Haitian singer Toto Bissainthe, whose musical journey is marked by her desire to disseminate creole singing.

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The Women

The Women

Documentary dialogue with young women in Algiers on their experience of independence shortly after their country's independence.

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And the Dogs Were Silent

And the Dogs Were Silent

For 'Et les chiens se taisaient' Maldoror adapted a piece of theatre by the poet and politician Aimé Césaire (1913–2008), about a rebel who becomes...

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Eia pour Césaire

Eia pour Césaire

Shortly after his death in 2008, Maldoror made this film about her longtime friend and collaborator, the Négritude poet Aimé Césaire. In this film,...

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Carnival in Bissau

Carnival in Bissau

Documentary short that explores the meaning of the locals’ African identity through the Carnival festivities.

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Miró, The Painter

Miró, The Painter

Short piece for the TV series Aujourd'hui en France [Today in France]. The review of an exhibition by Miró at the Maeght Foundation offers the...

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Aimé Césaire: The Mask of Words

Aimé Césaire: The Mask of Words

Aimé Césaire - Le Masque des mots is a portrait of the Martinican writer who calls himself a rebellious negro and for whom the poetic act...

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Un carnaval dans le Sahel

Un carnaval dans le Sahel

Sarah Maldoror uses Carnival as her approach to the history of colonization and black culture.

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Portrait of an African Woman

Portrait of an African Woman

After an interview whose theme is Senegalese immigrants in France, a piece by Sarah Maldoror appears. This is about the role of African women in...

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