Festival panafricain d’Algier (First PanAfrican Cultural Festival). 1969. Directed by William Klein with Sarah Maldoror and others

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Festival panafricain d’Algier (First PanAfrican Cultural Festival). 1969. France. Directed by William Klein, Sarah Maldoror and others. Courtesy of ARTE.

Festival panafricain d’Algier (First PanAfrican Cultural Festival). 1969. France. Directed by William Klein with Sarah Maldoror and others. 110 min.

Featuring performances by Miriam Makeba, Nina Simone, Manu Dibango, and the jazz saxophonist Archie Shepp (who also appears in Sarah Maldoror’s Scala Milan AC), as well as interviews with Eldridge Cleaver and other exiled Black Panthers, this legendary 1969 gathering in Algiers of Black writers, musicians, artists, and revolutionaries from around the world was documented by Willian Klein and a team that included Sarah Maldoror, Pierre Lhomme, Michel Brault, Antoine Bonfanti, Mohamed Slimane Riad, and Ahmed Lallem (whose short film Elles screens in this retrospective)

This film accompanies Sarah Maldoror.

Past events

Tue, May 13, 2025, 7:00 p.m.

MoMA, Floor T1, Theater 1

The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 1
Sat, May 10, 2025, 2:00 p.m.

MoMA, Floor T2, Theater 2

The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2

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