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Mandabi (1968) Website. Official website. Ousmane Sembène (French: [usman sɑ̃bɛn]; 1 January 1923 or 8 January 1923 [ 1 ] – 9 June 2007), was a Senegalese film director, producer and writer. The Los Angeles Times considered him one of the greatest authors of Africa and he has often been called the "father of African film".
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.
The series features nearly all of Sembène's films, including Janus Films' recent 4K restorations of Mandabi (1968), Emitaï (1971), Xala (1975) and Ceddo (1977). Like Sergei Eisenstein, the director he considered most important, Sembène rejected socialist realism in favor of a cinematic language both didactic in function and supple in style.
Often regarded as Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembène's most acclaimed film, Xala smartly observes a sudden power shift's corruptive effects upon a community.Already having earned international recognition through his 1966 film Black Girl - which explored issues arising from decolonisation and its legacy - Sembène here secured his position as one of the most significant of Africa's post ...
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Mandabi. Shot primarily in Wolof, this second feature by Ousmane Sembène was the first ever made in an African language—a major step toward the realization of the trailblazing Senegalese filmmaker’s dream of creating a cinema by, about, and for the inhabitants of his home continent. After jobless Ibrahima Dieng receives a money order for ...
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Nov 5, 2015 · The Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembene (1923–2007), often called the father of African cinema, had a seismic career. He effectively created an African film industry out of nothing: In 1963 ...
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A documentary by Samba Gadjigo & Jason Silverman. 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 ...
