Essential Cinema: Century of Sembène

BLACK GIRL/BOROM SARRET

Directed by Ousmane Sembène

Senegal, 1966/63, 1h 17min, DCP, In French with English subtitles

Essential Cinema  Century of Sembène

There are no current or future screenings planned for this film.

Mbissine Thérèse Diop stars as a young Senegalese woman who immigrates to France in search of a better life only to find that, even among cosmopolitan white Europeans, the colonial mentality predominates. BLACK GIRL screens with Ousmane Sembène’s first short film, BOROM SARRET.

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