Tragically, the Senegalese director Djibril Diop Mambéty, a towering figure of World Cinema, passed away with few completed films to his name. His major testament were the feature films TOUKI BOUKI and HYENAS, but after those two films he made these two excellent medium-length films, LE FRANC is an absurdist farce made during a period of currency devaluation about a man trying to redeem his lottery winnings, and the posthumously released THE LITTLE GIRL WHO SOLD THE SUN is a dramatic ode to the courage of the children who live on streets in Africa.