Ousmane Sembène, the most internationally renowned African director of the twentieth century, made his feature debut in 1966 with the brilliant and stirring BLACK GIRL. Sembène, who was also an acclaimed novelist in his native Senegal, transforms a deceptively simple plot—about a young Senegalese woman who moves to France to work for a wealthy white couple and finds that life in their small apartment becomes a figurative and literal prison—into a complex, layered critique on the lingering colonialist mindset of a supposedly postcolonial world. Featuring a moving central performance by Mbissine Thérèse Diop, BLACK GIRL is a harrowing human drama as well as a radical political statement—and one of the essential films of the 1960s. New 4k Restoration.

Preceded by short film BOROM SARRET | Dir. Ousmane Sembène, Senegal, 1963, 20min., NR, DCP, In French with English Subtitles

Believed to be the first film shot by a black African, it tells the story of a poor man working as a cart driver in Dakar.

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