Sarah Maldoror Filmes

  • 1983
    The Hospital of Leningrad

    The Hospital of Leningrad

    The Hospital of Leningrad

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

    The Hospital of Leningrad
  • 1979
    Fogo, Fire Island

    Fogo, Fire Island

    Fogo, Fire Island

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    Documentary about Cape Verde and the island of Fogo produced by the revolutionary government of the new country. A culture learning to live without...

    Fogo, Fire Island
  • 1980
    Opening of the Theater Noir in Paris

    Opening of the Theater Noir in Paris

    Opening of the Theater Noir in Paris

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    Sarah Maldoror documents the opening of the Théâtre Noir de Paris, a Négritude-inspired theater company and cultural association...

    Opening of the Theater Noir in Paris
  • 1987
    Aimé Césaire: The Mask of Words

    Aimé Césaire: The Mask of Words

    Aimé Césaire: The Mask of Words

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    Aimé Césaire - Le Masque des mots is a portrait of the Martinican writer who calls himself a rebellious negro and for whom the poetic...

    Aimé Césaire: The Mask of Words
  • 1981
    A Dessert for Constance

    A Dessert for Constance

    A Dessert for Constance

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    Bokolo and Mamadou, sweepers in the city of Paris, are looking for a way to pay for the return home of one of their sick comrades. When they find an...

    A Dessert for Constance
  • 1982
    René Depestre, poète haïtien

    René Depestre, poète haïtien

    René Depestre, poète haïtien

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

    René Depestre, poète haïtien
  • 1985
    Portrait of an African Woman

    Portrait of an African Woman

    Portrait of an African Woman

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    In this segment on immigrant cultures for the television program Mosaïque, a young Senegalese woman who cooks in a workers’ hostel dreams...

    Portrait of an African Woman
  • 1969
    The Panafrican Festival in Algiers

    The Panafrican Festival in Algiers

    The Panafrican Festival in Algiers

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    Festival panafricain d'Alger is a documentary by William Klein of the music and dance festival held 40 years ago in the streets and in venues all...

    The Panafrican Festival in Algiers
  • 1985
    Portrait of Christiane Diop

    Portrait of Christiane Diop

    Portrait of Christiane Diop

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    Sarah Maldoror reports on Christiane Diop, editor of the publishing house Présence africaine, which includes an interview with illustrator...

    Portrait of Christiane Diop
  • 1986
    Emanuel Ungaro

    Emanuel Ungaro

    Emanuel Ungaro

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    This modest portrait of the fashion designer Emanuel Ungaro seems to mark a departure from Sarah Maldoror’s usual subjects, but it nonetheless...

    Emanuel Ungaro
  • 2005
    Voisins, voisines

    Voisins, voisines

    Voisins, voisines

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    The Mozart Residence is home to several "new owners" of all origins: a new concierge, Paco, of Spanish origin, who has just been released from...

    Voisins, voisines
  • 1986
    Point Virgule

    Point Virgule

    Point Virgule

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

    Point Virgule
  • 2003
    Memory's Gaze

    Memory's Gaze

    Memory's Gaze

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    The filmmaker Sarah Maldoror films the writer Édouard Glissant at the Fort de Joux (in the Jura), in the cell where the Haitian general...

    Memory's Gaze
  • 2005
    Les oiseaux mains

    Les oiseaux mains

    Les oiseaux mains

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    A short animation about motion and poetry.

    Les oiseaux mains
  • 1985
    Public Writer

    Public Writer

    Public Writer

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    Sarah Maldoror interviews women of different nationalities who serve as “public” writers, linking French administrative bodies with...

    Public Writer
  • 1973
    Sambizanga

    Sambizanga

    Sambizanga

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    Domingos is a member of an African liberation movement, arrested by the Portuguese secret police, after bloody events in Angola. His wife goes from a...

    Sambizanga
  • 1966
    The Women

    The Women

    The Women

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

    The Women
  • 1987
    Rencontre avec Assia Djebar

    Rencontre avec Assia Djebar

    Rencontre avec Assia Djebar

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    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...

    Rencontre avec Assia Djebar
  • 1972
    Saint-Denis-sur-Avenir

    Saint-Denis-sur-Avenir

    Saint-Denis-sur-Avenir

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

    Saint-Denis-sur-Avenir
  • 1976
    Mosaïque

    Mosaïque

    Mosaïque

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    Broadcast from 1977 to 1987 on FR3, every Sunday morning, for 1h30, Mosaïque is a variety show with a set where music groups from the countries...

    Mosaïque