Black Girl + Jemima + Johnny

+ intro by Ashley Clark

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The seminal work from the father of African cinema focuses on a domestic worker who emigrates from Senegal to France in hope of a better life.

  • Director

    Ousmane Sembène

  • With

    Mbissine Thérèse Diop, Anne-Marie Jelinek, Robert Fontaine

  • Senegal-France 1966. 59min. Total running time 98min

  • Digital 4K

  • Certificate

    15

  • English subtitles

This haunting, crisply-shot character study follows a hopeful young Senegalese woman who leaves Dakar to work for a bourgeois white family in France. Considered the first feature film made in sub-Saharan Africa by a Black African director, Black Girl confirmed the arrival of a vital cinematic voice and provided a sharp commentary on the pernicious inequalities of the postcolonial order.

+ Jemima + Johnny

UK 1966. Director Lionel Ngakane. With Nicolette Robinson, Patrick Hatfield, Thomas Baptiste. 29min. Digital. PG

A key figure in the development of pan-African filmmaking, South African-born Lionel Ngakane directed this sprightly drama about the guileless friendship between a Black girl and a white boy, set against the social tensions of 1960s West London.