Black Girl

Ousmane Sembène’s legendary debut film offers a revelation about colonialism in a supposedly post-colonial world that begs to be rediscovered.

Ousmane Sembène was one of Africa’s most important filmmakers and writers and his immeasurable influence was felt far beyond the continent. He caused a sensation with his cinematic debut ›Black Girl‹: a young woman works as a nanny for a French family in Dakar. When they decide to return to France, she goes with them. No sooner have they arrived, however, than she becomes a cheap cleaner and cook whose body is degraded to the status of exotic object. Faced with this blatant racism, the young woman vows never to be a slave again and commits a radical act of resistance.


As an opening film, we will show ›The House Is Black‹ by Forough Farrokhzad (22 min).

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