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Country of Origin: Senegal
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BLACK GIRL (1966)
Certification15 Our Rating


A Senegalese woman is eager to find a better life abroad. She takes a job as a governess for a French family, but finds her duties reduced to those of a maid after the family moves from Dakar to the south of France. In her new country, the woman is constantly made aware of her race and mistreated by her em find out more...

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CINEMA 16 WORLD SHORT FILMS DISC TWO (2007)
Certification15 Our Rating
9. My Dad Is 100 Years Old: Guy Maddin (CA) find out more...
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MOOLAADE (2006)
Certification15 Our Rating
The acclaimed new film from the legendary director Ousmane Sembene, widely regarded as the father of African cinema, brilliantly tackles his most controversial subject to date - female circumcision. In a small village in Burkina Faso, four young girls have fled the ritual of 'purification' and seek protection - moolaadé - from Collé, a circumcised woman who helped her own daughter escape excision seven years earlier. Collé grants the girls sanctuary, much to the consternation of those village find out more...
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XALA (1974)
Certification12 Our Rating
El Hadji decides to celebrate his wealth and success by taking a third wife, a girl younger than his daughter, but on his wedding night he is struck by the curse of Xala which leaves him impotent. Xala is a delicious satire which targets the increasing gap between rich and poor within independent Senegal and the incompatible mix of colonial pomposity and ethnic tradition amongst the wealthy Senegalise. Increasingly surreal and highly enjoyable. find out more...
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