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Mahen Bonetti and Amy Sall
Emitaï
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38m
In this conversation, conducted for the Criterion Collection in 2024, Mahen Bonetti—the founder and executive director of the African Film Festival—and Amy Sall, a writer and the founding editor of SUNU: Journal of African Affairs, Critical Thought + Aesthetics, discuss the sociocultural and historical themes in the films of Ousmane Sembène.
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Directed by Ousmane Sembène • 1971 • Senegal
Starring Robert Fontaine, Michel Remaudeau, Pierre BlanchardWith revolutionary outrage, Ousmane Sembène chronicles a period during World War II when French colonial forces in Senegal conscripted young men of the Diola people and attempted to seize ri...