Black Girl

In the feature debut of writer Ousmane Sembène (Moolaadé), who would later be referred to as the 'Father of African film', a Senegalese woman becomes a governess to a family in southern France but suffers from discrimination and marginalisation.

'Sembène, who was also an acclaimed novelist in his native Senegal, transforms a deceptively simple plot... into a complexly layered critique of the lingering colonialist mindset of a supposedly postcolonial world. Featuring a moving central performance by M’Bissine Thérèse Diop, Black Girl is a harrowing human drama as well as a radical political statement—and one of the essential films of the 1960s.' (Criterion.com)

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