Black Girl

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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 the hope for a better life.

  • Director

    Ousmane Sembène

  • With

    Mbissine Thérèse Diop, Anne-Marie Jelinek, Robert Fontaine

  • Senegal-France 1966. 59min

  • Digital 4K

  • Certificate

    15

  • English subtitles

Sembène’s acclaimed feature debut details the life of a young Senegalese woman who has moved to France to be a domestic worker for a white family, but ends up being exploited by her employers. The filmmaker combines a tragic human story with a searing critique of the post-colonial sentiments of the 1960s to create a groundbreaking masterpiece that continues to resonate today.

Contains distressing scenes and scenes of abuse.

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