Sarah Maldoror Movies

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1981
    Dessert for Constance

    Dessert for Constance

    Dessert for Constance

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    Bokolo and Mamadou, sweepers in the city of Paris, are looking for a way to pay for the return home of one of their sick comrades. When they find an...

    Dessert for Constance
  • 2003
    Regards de mémoire

    Regards de mémoire

    Regards de mémoire

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    The filmmaker Sarah Maldoror films the writer Édouard Glissant at the Fort de Joux (in the Jura), in the cell where the Haitian general...

    Regards de mémoire
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2009
    Eia pour Césaire

    Eia pour Césaire

    Eia pour Césaire

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    Shortly after his death in 2008, Maldoror made this film about her longtime friend and collaborator, the Négritude poet Aimé...

    Eia pour Césaire
  • 1980
    Carnival in Bissau

    Carnival in Bissau

    Carnival in Bissau

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    Documentary short that explores the meaning of the locals’ African identity through the Carnival festivities.

    Carnival in Bissau
  • 2005
    Voisins, voisines

    Voisins, voisines

    Voisins, voisines

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    The Mozart Residence is home to several "new owners" of all origins: a new concierge, Paco, of Spanish origin, who has just been released from...

    Voisins, voisines
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1987
    Aimé Césaire: The Mask of Words

    Aimé Césaire: The Mask of Words

    Aimé Césaire: The Mask of Words

    01987HD

    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
  • 1985
    Portrait of an African Woman

    Portrait of an African Woman

    Portrait of an African Woman

    01985HD

    After an interview whose theme is Senegalese immigrants in France, a piece by Sarah Maldoror appears. This is about the role of African women in...

    Portrait of an African Woman
  • 1979
    Un carnaval dans le Sahel

    Un carnaval dans le Sahel

    Un carnaval dans le Sahel

    01979HD

    Sarah Maldoror uses Carnival as her approach to the history of colonization and black culture.

    Un carnaval dans le Sahel
  • 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