Up Next in Tessa Thompson’s Adventures in Moviegoing

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  Black Girl

  Black Girl

  Directed by Ousmane Sembène • 1966 • Senegal
  Starring M’Bissine Thérèse Diop

  Ousmane Sembène was one of the greatest and most groundbreaking filmmakers who ever lived, as well as the most renowned African director of the twentieth century—and yet his name still deserves to be better known in ...

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  Tessa Thompson on TOUKI BOUKI

  Tessa Thompson on TOUKI BOUKI

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  Touki bouki

  Touki bouki

  Directed by Djibril Diop Mambéty • 1973 • Senegal
  Starring Magaye Niang, Mareme Niang, Aminata Fall

  With a stunning mix of the surreal and the naturalistic, Djibril Diop Mambéty paints a vivid, fractured portrait of Senegal in the early 1970s. In this French New Wave-influenced fantasy-drama, tw...