Sarah Maldoror Movies

  • 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
  • 1985
    Portrait of an African Woman

    Portrait of an African Woman

    Portrait of an African Woman

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    In this segment on immigrant cultures for the television program Mosaïque, a young Senegalese woman who cooks in a workers’ hostel dreams...

    Portrait of an African Woman
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1986
    Point Virgule

    Point Virgule

    Point Virgule

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    In this short piece, fledgling editors, reporters, and illustrators describe their work on Point Virgule, a newspaper by and for young people,...

    Point Virgule
  • 1995
    Léon G. Damas

    Léon G. Damas

    Léon G. Damas

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    Léon G. Damas (1912–1978) was the first poet to “live Négritude”, according to the Senegalese poet, politician and...

    Léon G. Damas
  • 1982
    Emanuel Ungaro

    Emanuel Ungaro

    Emanuel Ungaro

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    This modest portrait of the fashion designer Emanuel Ungaro seems to mark a departure from Sarah Maldoror’s usual subjects, but it nonetheless...

    Emanuel Ungaro
  • 1986
    Tunisian Literature at the French National Library

    Tunisian Literature at the French National Library

    Tunisian Literature at the French National Library

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    Commemorating the 1986 Tunis-Paris exhibition Privileged Spaces and Times: French-Speaking Intellectual Production in Tunisia, Sarah Maldoror’s...

    Tunisian Literature at the French National Library
  • 1972
    Saint-Denis-sur-Avenir

    Saint-Denis-sur-Avenir

    Saint-Denis-sur-Avenir

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    Saint-Denis-sur-Avenir describes the problems faced by works in one of Paris’s working-class suburbs.

    Saint-Denis-sur-Avenir
  • 1986
    A Senegalese Man in Normandy

    A Senegalese Man in Normandy

    A Senegalese Man in Normandy

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    The Senegalese man of the film’s title is Léopold Sédar Senghor, the poet and first president of Senegal, who is remembered by...

    A Senegalese Man in Normandy
  • 1984
    Robert Lapoujade, peintre

    Robert Lapoujade, peintre

    Robert Lapoujade, peintre

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    Portrait of the French painter-etcher, lithographer and director.

    Robert Lapoujade, peintre
  • 1987
    Robert Doisneau, photographe

    Robert Doisneau, photographe

    Robert Doisneau, photographe

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    A portrait of the famous photographer, shot for his 1987 exhibition at the musée d’art et d’histoire de Saint-Denis.

    Robert Doisneau, photographe
  • 1981
    René Depestre, poète haïtien

    René Depestre, poète haïtien

    René Depestre, poète haïtien

    01981HD

    Maldoror casts a sympathetic light on one of Haitian literature’s most influential figures, the poet and political activist René...

    René Depestre, poète haïtien
  • 1979
    Miró, The Painter

    Miró, The Painter

    Miró, The Painter

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    Short piece for the TV series Aujourd'hui en France [Today in France]. Reporting on a Joan Miró exhibition at the Maeght Foundation, Sarah...

    Miró, The Painter
  • 2026
    Scala Milan AC

    Scala Milan AC

    Scala Milan AC

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    Some teenagers sign up for the contest: "Describe your neighborhood", whose first prize is a trip to Milan. As the youngsters are football fans and...

    Scala Milan AC
  • 1980
    Opening of the Theater Noir in Paris

    Opening of the Theater Noir in Paris

    Opening of the Theater Noir in Paris

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    Sarah Maldoror documents the opening of the Théâtre Noir de Paris, a Négritude-inspired theater company and cultural association...

    Opening of the Theater Noir in Paris
  • 1970
    Guns for Banta

    Guns for Banta

    Guns for Banta

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    Guns for Banta is the first feature-length film by Sarah Maldoror. Shot in Guinea-Bissau, it follows the life and untimely death of Awa, a...

    Guns for Banta
  • 1977
    The Basilica of Saint-Denis

    The Basilica of Saint-Denis

    The Basilica of Saint-Denis

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    A short film about all facets of the Parisian Gothic basilica, which features both a cathedral and a necropolis, the latter containing tombs of...

    The Basilica of Saint-Denis
  • 1980
    Wielopole, Wielopole as Staged by Kantor

    Wielopole, Wielopole as Staged by Kantor

    Wielopole, Wielopole as Staged by Kantor

    01980HD

    First staged in Krakow and the Gdansk shipyards in 1980, where Poland’s Solidarity movement was born, and here performed at the...

    Wielopole, Wielopole as Staged by Kantor
  • 1986
    First International Conference for Black Women

    First International Conference for Black Women

    First International Conference for Black Women

    01986HD

    In this report on an annual conference known as RIFEN, Black women from around the world gather to discuss points of common interest and need,...

    First International Conference for Black Women