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Jan 18, 2017 · Watch trailer. Genres: Documentary, Instructional. Duration: 1 hour 29 minutes. Availability: Worldwide. This top ten film of 2015 (New York Magazine, RogerEbert.com) premiered at the Sundance and Cannes Film Festivals, winning numerous festival awards and broad acclaim. In 1952, Ousmane Sembene, a Senegalese dockworker and fifth-grade dropout ...
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In 1952, Ousmane Sembéne, a dockworker and fifth-grade dropout from Senegal, began dreaming an impossible dream: to become the storyteller for a new Africa. SEMBENE!, a feature-length HD documentary, tells the unbelievable true story of the “father of African cinema,” the self-taught novelist and filmmaker who fought, against enormous odds, a monumental, 50-year-long battle to give ...
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Watch Sembene! (2015) free starring Ousmane Sembène, Mbissine Thérèse Diop and directed by Jason Silverman. "Discover the legacy of Ousmane Sembene, a revolutionary filmmaker who wielded cinema as a powerful tool for social change, narrating the struggles of Africa with passion and purpose.
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Xala. 1975. An adaptation of Ousmane Sembène’s own 1973 novel, Xala is a hilarious, caustic satire of political corruption under an inept patriarchy. On the night of his wedding to his third bride, government official El Hadji (Thierno Leye) is rendered impotent and begins to suspect that one of his other wives has placed a curse on him.
With revolutionary outrage, Ousmane Sembène chronicles a period during World War II when French colonial forces in Senegal conscripted young men of the Diola people and attempted to seize rice stores for soldiers back in Europe. As the tribe’s patriarchal leaders pray and make sacrifices to their gods, the women in the community refuse to yield their harvests, incurring the French army’s ...
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Ousmane Sembène was one of the greatest and most groundbreaking filmmakers who ever lived, as well as the most renowned African director of the twentieth century—and yet his name still deserves to be better known in the rest of the world. He made his feature debut in 1966 with the brilliant and stirring Black Girl. Sembène, who was also an acclaimed novelist in his native Senegal ...
