Cast: Mbissine Thérèse Diop

Direction Ousmane Sembene

Cast Mbissine Thérèse Diop · Anne-Marie Jelinek · Robert Fontaine · Momar Nar Sene

Synopsis Black Girl tells the story of Diouanne, a young Senegalese woman eager to find a better life and who takes a job as a governess for a bourgeois French family. Mistreated by her employers, Diouanne’s hopes turn to disillusionment and...

Direction Maïmouna Doucouré

Cast Fathia Youssouf Abdillahi · Medina El Aidi · Maïmouna Gueye · Esther Gohourou

Synopsis Amy, eleven years old, meets Angelica and her group of dancers “the cuties” at school. Intrigued, she joins their troupe and learns to dance. There she rapidly grows aware of her burgeoning femininity, a discovery contrary to her mother’s values.

Direction Aleksei Speshnyov

Cast Rein Aren · Bob Chuprov-Tsymba · Mbissine Thérèse Diop · Nikolai Grinko

Synopsis The life and death of Robert Moussombe, the leader of an unnamed African state. Moussombe is a fictionalized portrait of assassinated Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba, and the film's events are a pastiche of the Congo Crisis in 1960s.