{"id":2343,"date":"2013-12-16T21:18:21","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T05:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2014.africanfilmfestival.org\/?p=2343"},"modified":"2013-12-28T00:04:13","modified_gmt":"2013-12-28T08:04:13","slug":"borom-sarret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2014\/borom-sarret\/","title":{"rendered":"BOROM SARRET"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ousmane Semb\u00e8ne Retrospective with Dr. Amadou Fofana, author of <i>The Films of Ousmane Semb\u00e8ne<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The genesis of black African cinema can be traced to <i>Borom Sarret<\/i>, a short, stark masterpiece that chronicles a day in the life of a Dakar cart-driver. The frustrating day of this \u201cborom sarret\u201d (a Wolof expression for cart-driver) leaves him cheated out of his wages and deprived of his cart. In this striking, evocative film, Semb\u00e8ne conveys the toll of loss and poverty, and the stain of European colonization on Africa.<\/p>\n<p>In Wolof and French with English subtitles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ousmane Semb\u00e8ne Retrospective with Dr. Amadou Fofana, author of The Films of Ousmane Semb\u00e8ne The genesis of black African cinema can be traced to Borom Sarret, a short, stark masterpiece that chronicles a day in the life of a Dakar cart-driver. The frustrating day of this \u201cborom sarret\u201d (a Wolof expression for cart-driver) leaves him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2447,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-senegal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2344,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343\/revisions\/2344"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}