Direction: Sarah Maldoror

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Sarah Maldoror. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Un dessert pour Constance (TV)

1980 · Movie · 60 min. · France

Direction Sarah Maldoror

Cast Sidiki Bakaba · Cheick Doukouré · Elias Sherif · Jean Bouise

Plot Bokolo and Mamadou, sweepers in the city of Paris, are looking for a way to pay for the return home of one of their sick comrades. When they find an...

7.1

51 votes

7.1

51 votes

Sambizanga

1973 · Movie · 102 min. · Angola

Direction Sarah Maldoror

Cast Domingos de Oliveira · Elisa Andrade · Jean M'Vondo · Dino Abelino

Plot Domingos is a member of an African liberation movement, arrested by the Portuguese secret police, after bloody events in Angola. He does not betray his companions, but is beaten to...

6.3

44 votes

6.3

44 votes

Scala Milan AC (S)

2003 · Documentary · 18 min. · France

Direction Sarah Maldoror

Plot A group of young people from the Saint Denis banlieu, from different ethnic and geographical backgrounds, participates in a school contest to tell their neighborhood, whose prize is a trip...

6.2

40 votes

6.2

40 votes

Monangambeee (S)

1968 · Movie · 19 min. · Angola

6.1

28 votes

6.1

28 votes

Miró, peintre (S)

1979 · Documentary · 5 min. · France

Direction Sarah Maldoror

Plot Short piece for the TV series Aujourd’hui en France [Today in France]. The review of an exhibition by Miró at the Maeght Foundation offers the opportunity to approach the surrealist...

5.7

42 votes

5.7

42 votes

New Reports from France (TV Series)

1964 · Documentary · 25 min. · France

Direction Fred Tavano · Yves Allain · Jacques Scandelari · Patrice Molinard

Plot TV series (1964-1978). 159 episodes,

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Aimé Césaire at the End of Daybreak

1977 · Documentary · 57 min. · France

Direction Sarah Maldoror

Cast Aimé Césaire · Léopold Sédar Senghor

Plot Documentary on the négritude movement through one of its founders, Aimé Césaire.

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La tribu du bois de l'é (S)

1998 · Documentary · 18 min. · France

Direction Sarah Maldoror

Plot In a simple way, putting in parallel the life and work of a sculptor of the Meeting and a school of fine arts, this documentary proposes a simple idea: instead...

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Léon G. Damas

1995 · Documentary · 26 min. · France

Direction Sarah Maldoror

Plot Léon G. Damas (1912–1978) was the first poet to “live Négritude”, according to the Senegalese poet, politician and cultural theorist Léopold Sédar Senghor. Cosmopolitan and always in transit, his writing...

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Et les chiens se taiseient, d´Aimé Césaire (S)

1978 · Documentary · 13 min. · France

Direction Sarah Maldoror

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Fogo, Fire Island

1979 · Documentary · 32 min. · Cape Verde

Direction Sarah Maldoror

Plot In this documentary about Cape Verde and the island of Fogo produced by the revolutionary government of the new country, Sarah Maldoror returns to the anthropological vision of documentaries like...

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Carnival in the Sahel (S)

1979 · Documentary · 15 min. · Cape Verde

Direction Sarah Maldoror

Plot Sarah Maldoror uses Carnival as her approach to the history of colonization and black culture. Carnival is understood here as a festivity during which the limits are transgressed, the world...

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Louis Aragon, un Masque à Paris (S)

1978 · Documentary · 20 min. · France

Direction Sarah Maldoror

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A Bissau, le carnaval (S)

1980 · Documentary · 18 min. · Guinea-Bissau

Direction Sarah Maldoror

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