Screenplay: Ousmane Sembene

Direction Ousmane Sembene · Thierno Faty Sow

Cast Sidiki Bakaba · Hamed Camara · Philippe Chamelat · Ismaila Cissé

Direction Ousmane Sembene

Cast Maimouna Helene Diarra · Fatoumata Coulibaly · Salimata Traore · Dominique T. Zeida

Plot Set in a village in Burkina Faso, his latest film tackles the subject of female genital mutilation, but its political resonance is hardly limited to the parts of Africa where...

Direction Ousmane Sembene

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

Plot 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....

Direction Ousmane Sembene

Cast Douta Seck · Makhouredia Gueye · Seun Samb · Tierno Leye

Plot A rich, corrupt business executive marries for the third time for the express purpose of getting his name in the papers. After a disappointing wedding night, the businessman discovers that...

Direction Ousmane Sembene

Cast Makhouredia Gueye · Ynousse N'Diaye · Isseu Niang · Serigne N'Diayes

Plot The film is about an unemployed African man, Ibrahima, who lives with his two wives and kids. A nephew of his sends him a money order from France worth 25,000...

Direction Ousmane Sembene

Cast Ly Abdoulaye · Melle N’Diaye · Albourah

Plot Senegalese director Ousmane Sembène's Borom Saret tells the story of a poor man trying to make a living as a cart driver in Dakar. While he expects to be paid...

Direction Ousmane Sembene

Cast Robert Fontaine · Michel Remaudeau · Pierre Blanchard

Direction Ousmane Sembene

Cast Tabata Ndiaye · Moustapha Yade · Ismaila Diagne · Matoura Dia

Direction Ousmane Sembene

Cast Mamadou M'Bow · Amadi Dieng · Fatim Diagne · Coumba Mane

Direction Ousmane Sembene

Cast Thierno Ndiaye Doss · Mareme Niang · Omar Seck · Ndiawar Diop

Direction Ousmane Sembene

Cast Venus Seye · Mame Ndoumbé · Ndiagne Dia · Mariama Balde