At the Arts Picturehouse
BLACK GIRL + Q&A
Time: 6.00 – 8.15 PM
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Starring: Mbissine Thérèse Diop, Anne-Marie Jelinek, Robert Fontaine
Country of origin: Senegal
Release date: 1966
Length: 65 min
Language: French and Wolof with English subtitles
Genre: drama
Synopsis: BLACK GIRL is one of the most emblematic titles by Ousmane Sembène, featuring the aspirations for a better life abroad that have often motivated migration. A young Senegalese woman is hired as a governess by a French family, but finds her duties reduced to those of a maid after the family moves from Dakar to the south of France. In her new country, the woman is constantly made aware of her race and mistreated by her employers. Her hope turns to disillusionment and she falls into isolation and despair. This title is considered by many to be the first feature length fiction film to be made by a sub-Saharan African.
The film will be followed by a discussion with Rainatou Sow (Founder of Make Every Woman Count) in conversation with Estrella Sendra (CAFF Director).
