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The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun
1999. Senegal/France/Switzerland/Germany. Djibril Diop Mambéty. 45 min.
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Borom Sarret
1963. Senegal/France. Ousmane Sembène. 20 min.
Saturday, October 11, 2008, 4:00 p.m.
Theater 2 (The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2), T2
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The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun
1999. Senegal/France/Switzerland/Germany. Written and directed by Djibril Diop Mambéty. With Lissa Balera, Tayerou M'Baye. A hymn to the courage and ingenuity of street children, Mambéty's last film follows a twelve-year-old paraplegic girl who successfully muscles in on a boy's world—the selling of newspapers. In French, Wolof; English subtitles. 45 min.
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Borom Sarret
1963. Senegal/France. Written and directed by Ousmane Sembène. With Ly Abdoulaye and his horse Abouarah. Borom Sarret is widely recognized as Africa's first fiction film by a black African director. After Senegal achieved independence, Dakar's central quarter was closed to horse-drawn carts for sanitary reasons and for fear of traffic congestion. Some drivers, however, were not aware of this new regulation. In French; English voice-over. 20 min.
In the Film exhibition Delwende and Some African Films from the Collection
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