DFS Film: Sembene!
A true-life epic about “the father of African cinema.” Discussion with co-director Samba Gadjigo follows.
Location
BFVAC - Loew Auditorium
Sponsored by
Hopkins Center for the Arts
Audience
Public
Discussion with co-director Samba Gadjigo follows
In 1952, Ousmane Sembéne, a dockworker and fifth-grade dropout from Senegal, began dreaming an impossible dream: to become the storyteller for a new Africa. SEMBENE! tells the unbelievable true story of the “father of African cinema,” the self-taught filmmaker who fought a monumental, 50-year-long battle to give African stories to Africans. Told by colleague Samba Gadjigo, this true-life epic follows an ordinary man who became a hero to millions of marginalized people. D: Jason Silverman, US, 2015, 82m
Location
BFVAC - Loew Auditorium
Sponsored by
Hopkins Center for the Arts
Audience
Public
