Sarah Maldoror (19 July 1929 − 13 April 2020) was a French filmmaker of French West Indies descent. She is best known for her feature film Sambizanga (1972) on the 1961–1974 war in Angola. After her studies, Maldoror, worked as an assistant on Gillo Pontecorvo's acclaimed film, The Battle of Algiers (1966). She also worked as an assistant to Algerian director Ahmed Lallem. Maldoror's short film, Monangambee (1968), was set in Angola, based on a story by Angolan writer José Luandino Vieira. The title of this 17-minute film, Monangambée, refers to the call used by Angolan anti-colonial activists to signal a village meeting. The film was shot with amateur actors in Algeria. It tells the story of a poor woman who visits her husband, who is imprisoned in the city of Luanda. The film was selected for the Director's Fortnight at Cannes in 1971, representing Angola. Her first feature film, Sambizanga (1972), was also based on a story by Vieira (A vida verdadeira de Domingos Xavier), and is set in 1961 at the onset of the Angolan War of Independence. Guardian film writer Mark Cousins included Sambizanga in a 2012 list of the ten best African films, calling it "as bold, as well-lit as Caravaggio paintings". Description above from the Wikipedia article Sarah Maldoror, licensed under CC BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Sarah Maldoror ou la nostalgie de l'utopie
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Mosaïque
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Aimé Césaire, Un homme une terre
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Sisters of the Screen - African Women in the Cinema
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Voisins, voisines
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And the Dogs Were Silent
Foreword to Guns for Banta
Afrique(s), une autre histoire du XXème siècle
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Eia pour Césaire
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Tribu du bois de l'E
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Regards de mémoire
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Un carnaval dans le Sahel
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Sambizanga
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Guns for Banta
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Portrait of an African Woman
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Sambizanga
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Eia pour Césaire
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Aimé Césaire, Un homme une terre
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Monangambeee
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Monangambeee
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Dessert for Constance
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Rencontre avec Assia Djebar
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The Battle of Algiers
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The Panafrican Festival in Algiers
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And the Dogs Were Silent
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The Women
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Aimé Césaire, Un homme une terre
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Léon G. Damas
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Toto Bissainthe
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Scala Milan AC
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Miró, The Painter
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Le Passager du Tassili
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Aimé Césaire: The Mask of Words
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Aimé Césaire at the End of Daybreak
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Louis Aragon, a mask in Paris
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Carnival in Bissau
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Fogo, Fire Island
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Les oiseaux mains
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Ana Mercedes Hoyos
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L'hôpital de Leningrad
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L'hôpital de Leningrad
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