Sarah Maldoror Movies

Documentary dialogue with young women in Algiers on their experience of independence shortly after their country's independence.

Shortly after his death in 2008, Maldoror made this film about her longtime friend and collaborator, the Négritude poet Aimé...

Alternating interview segments, shots of Martinique landscapes and scenes from Aimé Césaire's play La Tragédie du roi Christophe...

A story of political imprisonment set in a mental hospital where the Stalin state police placed whoever their opponents were.

Saint-Denis-sur-Avenir describes the problems faced by works in one of Paris’s working-class suburbs.

For the France 3 show, Mosaïque, Sarah Maldoror met Assia Djebar on Sunday March 29, 1987 on the occasion of the publication of her book Ombre...

Portrait of the French painter-etcher, lithographer and director.

A portrait of the famous photographer, shot for his 1987 exhibition at the musée d’art et d’histoire de Saint-Denis.

Guns for Banta is the first feature-length film by Sarah Maldoror. Shot in Guinea-Bissau, Guns for Banta follows the life and untimely death of Awa,...

In this short piece, fledgling editors, reporters, and illustrators describe their work on Point Virgule, a newspaper by and for young people,...

For 'Et les chiens se taisaient' Maldoror adapted a piece of theatre by the poet and politician Aimé Césaire (1913–2008), about a...

Exploring the extraordinary contributions of women filmmakers from Africa and the diaspora, Beti Ellerson’s engaging debut intersperses...

Maldoror traces the dramatic life of the self-taught sculptor Alberto Carlisky, who fled his native Argentina after being imprisoned in 1944 by the...

The Senegalese man of the film’s title is Léopold Sédar Senghor, the poet and first president of Senegal, who is remembered by...

Documentary short that explores the meaning of the locals’ African identity through the Carnival festivities.

In this report on an annual conference known as RIFEN, Black women from around the world gather to discuss points of common interest and need,...

There is a gap separating the surrealism from the Interwar period and that of the post-war era, and that is the way this movement would understand...

Documentary on the négritude movement through one of its founders, Aimé Césaire.

Maldoror casts a sympathetic light on one of Haitian literature’s most influential figures, the poet and political activist René...