Sarah Maldoror (1929-2020) is one of the first female filmmakers to document the anti-colonial struggle in Africa. She made two dozen films from the early 1970s until her death in 2020 from COVID-19 complications.
Sarah Maldoror
Fontenay-lès-Briis, France
Note: For her full list of films, visit IMDB.
Films
Léon G. Damas
Not currently available to stream
(1994)
While Aimé Cesaire was the one who coined the term négritude, it was the poet Leon G. Damas who first experienced négritude, says Leopold Senghor. A documentary about the poets, landscapes and stories surrounding this important poet, one of the pillars of the négritude cultural movement.
Sambizanga
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(1972)
A man is wrongfully arrested and tortured to death after he is suspected of being part of a revolutionary group.
Des fusils pour Banta
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(1970)
The role of women in the struggle to liberate Black Angola from its white Portuguese colonialist rulers.
Monangambé
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(1968)
Abuses by the Portuguese slave traders in their colony of Angola are depicted through the torture of one prisoner, based on ignorance and incomprehension.
