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Mahen Bonetti and Amy Sall

Emitaï • 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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