Sarah Maldoror Movies

  • 1973
    Sambizanga

    Sambizanga

    Sambizanga

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    Domingos is a member of an African liberation movement, arrested by the Portuguese secret police, after bloody events in Angola. His wife goes from a...

    Sambizanga
  • 1966
    The Battle of Algiers

    The Battle of Algiers

    The Battle of Algiers

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    Tracing the struggle of the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale to gain freedom from French colonial rule as seen through the eyes of Ali from his...

    The Battle of Algiers
  • 1976
    Mosaïque

    Mosaïque

    Mosaïque

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    Broadcast from 1977 to 1987 on FR3, every Sunday morning, for 1h30, Mosaïque is a variety show with a set where music groups from the countries...

    Mosaïque
  • 1987
    Le Passager du Tassili

    Le Passager du Tassili

    Le Passager du Tassili

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    Omar, a young Franco-Algerian from La Garenne-Colombes, decided to spend his vacation in the country of his ancestors, Algeria. On his return, he...

    Le Passager du Tassili
  • 1978
    Louis Aragon, a mask in Paris

    Louis Aragon, a mask in Paris

    Louis Aragon, a mask in Paris

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    There is a gap separating the surrealism from the Interwar period and that of the post-war era, and that is the way this movement would understand...

    Louis Aragon, a mask in Paris
  • 1976
    Aimé Césaire, Un homme une terre

    Aimé Césaire, Un homme une terre

    Aimé Césaire, Un homme une terre

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    Alternating interview segments, shots of Martinique landscapes and scenes from Aimé Césaire's play La Tragédie du roi Christophe...

    Aimé Césaire, Un homme une terre
  • 1983
    L'hôpital de Leningrad

    L'hôpital de Leningrad

    L'hôpital de Leningrad

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    A story of political imprisonment set in a mental hospital where the Stalin state police placed whoever their opponents were.

    L'hôpital de Leningrad
  • 1968
    Monangambeee

    Monangambeee

    Monangambeee

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    Filmmaker-griot coming from the theater, it was with a camera, while the war in Vietnam occupied everyone's minds, that Sarah Maldoror gave...

    Monangambeee
  • 2005
    Les oiseaux mains

    Les oiseaux mains

    Les oiseaux mains

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    A short animation about motion and poetry.

    Les oiseaux mains
  • 1979
    Fogo, Fire Island

    Fogo, Fire Island

    Fogo, Fire Island

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    Documentary about Cape Verde and the island of Fogo produced by the revolutionary government of the new country. A culture learning to live without...

    Fogo, Fire Island
  • 2009
    Ana Mercedes Hoyos

    Ana Mercedes Hoyos

    Ana Mercedes Hoyos

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    Documentary about Colombian artist Ana Mercedes Hoyos, which deals with slavery and Afro-Caribbean cultures.

    Ana Mercedes Hoyos
  • 1966
    The Women

    The Women

    The Women

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    Documentary dialogue with young women in Algiers on their experience of independence shortly after their country's independence.

    The Women
  • 1969
    The Panafrican Festival in Algiers

    The Panafrican Festival in Algiers

    The Panafrican Festival in Algiers

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    Festival panafricain d'Alger is a documentary by William Klein of the music and dance festival held 40 years ago in the streets and in venues all...

    The Panafrican Festival in Algiers
  • 1987
    Rencontre avec Assia Djebar

    Rencontre avec Assia Djebar

    Rencontre avec Assia Djebar

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    For the France 3 show, Mosaïque, Sarah Maldoror met Assia Djebar on Sunday March 29, 1987 on the occasion of the publication of her book Ombre...

    Rencontre avec Assia Djebar
  • 1987
    Aimé Césaire: The Mask of Words

    Aimé Césaire: The Mask of Words

    Aimé Césaire: The Mask of Words

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    Aimé Césaire - Le Masque des mots is a portrait of the Martinican writer who calls himself a rebellious negro and for whom the poetic...

    Aimé Césaire: The Mask of Words
  • 2002
    Sisters of the Screen - African Women in the Cinema

    Sisters of the Screen - African Women in the Cinema

    Sisters of the Screen - African Women in the Cinema

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    Exploring the extraordinary contributions of women filmmakers from Africa and the diaspora, Beti Ellerson’s engaging debut intersperses...

    Sisters of the Screen - African Women in the Cinema
  • 1977
    Aimé Césaire at the End of Daybreak

    Aimé Césaire at the End of Daybreak

    Aimé Césaire at the End of Daybreak

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    Documentary on the négritude movement through one of its founders, Aimé Césaire.

    Aimé Césaire at the End of Daybreak
  • 1984
    Toto Bissainthe

    Toto Bissainthe

    Toto Bissainthe

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    A portrait of Haitian singer Toto Bissainthe, whose musical journey is marked by her desire to disseminate creole singing.

    Toto Bissainthe
  • 1979
    Carnival in the Sahel

    Carnival in the Sahel

    Carnival in the Sahel

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    Sarah Maldoror uses Carnival as her approach to the history of colonization and black culture. Carnival is understood here as a festivity during...

    Carnival in the Sahel
  • 1976
    And the Dogs Were Silent

    And the Dogs Were Silent

    And the Dogs Were Silent

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    For 'Et les chiens se taisaient' Maldoror adapted a piece of theatre by the poet and politician Aimé Césaire (1913–2008), about a...

    And the Dogs Were Silent