La petite vendeuse de soleil
The recurrent cycle Noir.e.s à la caméra allows us to discover works directed or produced by African or Afrodescendant filmmakers throughout the history of cinema.
Chloe and Louis secretly love each other. They are deaf-mute. Their gestures replace the words, each word is a choreography.
Jean-Charles Mbotti Malolo
Born in Vaulx-en-Velin, France, Jean-Charles Mbotti Malolo is a dancer, animator and filmmaker of Cameroonian descent. He studied animation at the Emile Cohl School of Lyon. (Wikipedia)
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Boys sell newspapers on the sly when, suddenly, a little girl gets involved... A luminous fable of universal scope where feminism is expressed through acts of bravery, and where the cinema carries a vision of the world full of hope. A film that, twenty years after the death of its director, has become a classic of African cinema.
Djibril Diop Mambéty
Djibril Diop Mambéty was a Senegalese actor, screenwriter, and film director, born in Colobane, near Dakar. He is considered one of the most influential African filmmakers of his generation. At just 17, Mambéty founded Senegal's first café-théâtre. Shortly afterward, the director of the French Cultural Centre in Dakar lent him equipment and a cameraman to create his first short films, Contras’ City and Badou Boy. In 1973, he directed his groundbreaking debut feature, Touki bouki, and a follow-up, Hyènes (1992), a tale of a humiliated woman seeking revenge. Together, these two films form a diptych exploring themes of power and madness. In 1995, Mambéty began to work on a trilogy titled Histoires de petites gens. He completed two parts: Le franc (1995), which won Best Short Film at the Milan African Film Festival, and La petite vendeuse de soleil (1999). He tragically passed away from lung cancer in 1998 while editing this final installment. He was the subject of the 2008 documentary Mambéty For Ever and is the uncle of actress and filmmaker Mati Diop.
