Black Girl

Diouana, a young black Senegalese woman, is brought to Antibes by a French couple, previously stationed in Dakar, to work as a governess for their children. She quickly discovers that she must do the cooking, laundry, cleaning and baby-sitting.Without salary or friends, treated as an invisible by her employers and confined to the house except for shopping, she sinks into despair. Her dream of France as the Promised Land is shattered
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Script: Ousmane Sembene,based on a short story by Ousmane Sembene
Cinematography: Christian Lacoste
Editing: Andre Gaudier
Actors: Therese M’Bissine Diop (Diouana), Momar Nar Sene (the young man), Anne-Marie Jelinek (Madame), Robert Fontaine (Monsieur), Ibrahima (young boy with mask)
Production: Les Films Domirev
Producers: Andre Zwobada
Co-production: Les Actualites Francaises
Format: 35mm B&W
Production Country: Senegal-France
Production Year: 1966
Duration: 65
Contact: La Mediatheque des Trois Mondes, FranceT. +33 1 4234 9900F. +33 1 4234 9901cine3mondes@wanadoo.fr

Ousmane Sembene

He was born in 1923 and died in 2007. He is a Senegalese writer, chronicler and film director, best-known for his historical- political works with strong social comment. In the 1960s he developed an interest in the cinema and went to the Gorki Institute in Moscow to study film production. His Black Girl was the first film ever produced by an African filmmaker and won the Jean Vigo Award at the Cannes IFF 1966. He often turned his short stories and novels into films. During his career as a director, he received several international awards and his films were immensely popular in Africa.

Filmography

1963 Borom Sarret/The Cart Driver (short)
1963 L’Empire Songhai/The Songhai Empire (short doc.)
1964 Niaye (short)
1966 La Noire de.../Black Girl
1968 Mandabi/The Money Order
1969 (Traumatisme de la femme face a la) polygamie/
Women and the Trauma of Polygamy (doc.)
1969 Probleme de l’emploi a.k.a. Les Derives du chomage/
Unemployment Problems (doc)
1970 Tauw (short)
1971 Emitai/God of Thunder
1972 Jeux Olympiques de Munich/The Munich Olympic Games (doc.)
1974 Xala/The Curse
1976 Ceddo
1988 Camp de Thiaroye/Camp Thiaroye
1992 Guelwaar
1999 L’heroisme au quotidian/Daily Heroism (short)
2000 Faat Kine
2004 Moolaade