Black Girl (60th Anniversary)
Director Ousmane Sembène is often called the father of African cinema, and with Black Girl he created one of his foundational films. Through the story of Diouana, a young Senegalese woman who goes to work for a French couple, Sembène presents a precise and devastating portrait of exploitation disguised as goodwill. His restrained visual style and elliptical narrative structure transform everyday gestures into acts of indictment, showing how identity can be erased even within the most domestic of spaces. Sixty years later, the film’s moral force remains as urgent as ever, precisely because Sembène reveals how colonial power relations do not disappear with independence, but continue to operate through language, labor, ownership, and the intimate dynamics of everyday life. In celebration of its 60th anniversary, Black Girl returns to cinemas in a new 4K restoration.
- Direction
- Ousmane Sembène
- Cast
- Mbissine Thérèse Diop, Anne-Marie Jelinek, Robert Fontaine
- Duration
- 65 min
- RELEASE
- Thu 9 Jul
- Year
- 1966
- Country
- France
- Language
- French
- Subtitles
- Dutch
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