Screening Times
Saturday February 02, 2:20 p.m., PCC Cascade Moriarty Bldg. 104 with Borom Sarret (Tribute to Ousmane Sembène, 1923 - 2007, the "Father of African Cinema")
All films are free and open to the public on a first-come, first-served basis.
Black Girl / La Noire De... (Senegal)
Directed by Ousmane Sembène
1966, 65 min.
Black Girl, Sembène's first feature film, is a story of dreams and dashed hopes in the realm of neocolonialism. Diouana, a young woman who works for a French couple in Senegal, is given the opportunity to experience life in Europe when the couple repatriates to the south of France. Yet her experience in the not-so-ideal world of Europe turns out to be very different from what she had expected. This classic story of emigration and alienation is among Sembène's most powerful, painful, and influential.