“Early Sembène” Film Series

Post-screening discussion! Sembène’s first short and first feature—both shot in black and white—explore pressures on labor in postcolonial Senegal’s early years, as seen through BOROM SARRET’s wagon tour of Dakar and BLACK GIRL’s stifling sojourn to France. “Essential viewing for the well-rounded film lover” (Jordan Hoffman). In French with English subtitles.

Presented by Yale Film Archive and Whitney Humanities Center