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 film director, actor, orator, composer and poet. In 1969, at age 23, without any formal training in filmmaking, Mambéty directed and produced his first short film, Contras' City (City of Contrasts). The following year Mambéty made another short, Badou Boy, which won the Silver Tanit award at the 1970 Carthage Film Festival in Tunisia. Though he made only two feature films and five short films, they received international acclaim for their original and experimental cinematic technique and non-linear, unconventional narrative style. (Wikipedia)