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Description
This exploration of an intimate and poetic body of work highlights a filmmaker whom history almost erased. Her highly subversive, revolutionary and very African cinema also reveals her love for the arts and commitment to exist as a woman and filmmaker. It also highlights her constant and unwavering support for her partner – her compagnon de route – the Angolan poet and politician Mário de Andrade.
Season programme (Annouchka de Andrade, season curator)
Season Introduction: Poetry in My Soul
Sarah Maldoror Herself + discussion with Annouchka de Andrade
Sambizanga + intro (Annouchka de Andrade and Henda Ducados)
Sambizanga + pre-recorded Q&A with Sarah Maldoror
Sarah Maldoror’s classic feature reveals the human cost of colonial oppression during Angola’s struggle for independence.
Rebellion
Three films by Sarah Maldoror about Aimé Césaire.
Passing through Paris
All to Mexico!
Poetry Is Political: portraits of René Depestre, Ana Mercedes Hoyos and imé Césaire.
When I Don’t Sleep, I Dream
From Saint-Denis to Algiers
French-Algerian history is explored in these stories of exile, belonging and memory.
Fiesta - Sarah Maldoror’s unofficial carnival trilogy
All Is Politics
Key Scholar Lecture: “The time it takes to march”: Pan-Africanism and beauty in Sarah Maldoror’s unapologetic cinema with Janaína Oliveira