Sarah was the first woman of colour
to direct a feature film in Africa
Sarah became known as the
Matriarch of African Cinema
Mario de Andrade, as a poet, critic,
and political activist
expressed the struggle for
independence of the people of
Angola from colonial rule

Friends of Sarah Maldoror and Mario de Andrade

Annouchka de Andrade and Henda Ducados have developed a project to preserve and share Sarah Maldoror and Mario de Andrade’ work. The path of two beings who fought for African independence and cultural emancipation.  Crucial to their work are films restoration of films, archiving of documents, correspondences, manuscripts and unknown screenplays etc

The aim of this association is to promote the cinematographic works and thought of Sarah Maldoror and Mario de Andrade.

To perpetuate the works of these two intellectuals, to safeguard, promote, disseminate and encourage research into their memory and thoughts.

The Association avails itself of all means and resources (public or private) to restore and promote the works of Sarah Maldoror and Mario de Andrade, whether filmed or not, published or not, and to manage, catalog, archive and promote the public and private audiovisual, sound and written archives in the form of all documents and media.

It takes part in any cultural activity (free or paying) of its choice, in the organization of meetings, symposia, retrospectives, festivals, events (public or private) enabling their works to be transmitted and promoted internationally.

The voice of the oppressed and of the dissidents, the filmmaker Sarah Maldoror, a pioneer of PanAfrican cinema, passed on April 13, 2020, of complications from coronavirus. Her luminous cinematic oeuvre, including more than 40 films, reveals a valiant fighter, curious about everything, generous, sassy, very caring about others, who crossed all sorts of boundaries with her poetic approach.
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None of Mario de Andrade’s writings have yet been officially translated into English. One may read about his work in both the political and literary spheres in the short biographical entry in Donald E. Herdeck’s (ed.) African Authors, published by Black Orpheus press in 1973. The Portuguese version of “Song of Sabalu” translated into English here is published in Presence Africaine (1966).
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Origins of African Nationalism – by Mário Pinto de Andrade

Origins of African Nationalism – by Mário Pinto de Andrade

Exploring the development and structuring of African nationalist sentiment, the intellectual and sociological foundations of African nationalism, and the origins and social and cultural identities of the participants who helped

Cité internationale des Arts de Paris – exhibition May 16 – July 30

Cité internationale des Arts de Paris – exhibition May 16 – July 30

Under the police station of Emilia Goudal and Nataia Petrein-Bachelez. These voices that besieg me…, whose title borrows the words of Assia Djebar, brings together a selection of works, images

Revolution will be a Poetic Act

Revolution will be a Poetic Act

This book is a collection of essays and speeches by Mário Pinto de Andrade, the Angolan literary critic, cultural theorist and political activist and one of Africa’s most important 20th

Events Diary

Screens: A Panafrica Film Series (Chicago)

August 10, 2024 8:00 am

Screens: A Panafrica Film Series (Chicago)

For modern and contemporary artists working between Africa and the diaspora, film and photography have been tremendously important forms of...

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Origins of African Nationalism

August 23, 2024 8:00 am

Origins of African Nationalism

Continuity and Rupture in the Movements of Unity Emerging from the Struggle against Portuguese Colonial Domination, 1911–1961 Exploring the...

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Revolution will be a poetic act

August 25, 2024 8:00 am

Revolution will be a poetic act

This book is a collection of essays and speeches by Mário Pinto de Andrade, the Angolan literary critic, cultural theorist and political activist...

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Sarah Maldoror – An Alternative Identity – Cataluña cinematek (Barcelona)

October 1, 2024 8:00 am

Sarah Maldoror – An Alternative Identity – Cataluña cinematek (Barcelona)

The season of films Sarah Maldoror. An Alternative Identity responds to the need to network with the city’s institutions to develop a de-localised...

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Past Events
November 19 and 20: Marseille
November 19 and 20: Marseille

Films Femmes Mediterranée: tribute to Sarah Maldoror

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November 8 to 19: Amsterdam
November 8 to 19: Amsterdam

IDFA: screening of Fogo island of fire by Sarah Maldoror 9 nov – 14h45 au Cinema Tuschinski 5 16 nov – 15 h 15 au Eye cinema 2

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November 7 to 11 : Windsor (Canada) and Detroit (Michigan)
November 7 to 11 : Windsor (Canada) and Detroit (Michigan)

Media city Film festival. Screening of And the dogs were quiet by Sarah Maldoror mediacityfilmfestival.com

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Article Archive
The inauguration on May 2, 2022 of the personal library of Mario de Andrade
The inauguration on May 2, 2022 of the personal library of Mario de Andrade

The inauguration on May 2, 2022 of the personal library of Mario de Andrade in the National Center of Archives in Luanda (Angola). Both daughters have deposited into the Angolan

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Cinema and freedom: the retrospective of Sarah Maldoror’s legacy at IndieLisboa, in Lisbon
Cinema and freedom: the retrospective of Sarah Maldoror’s legacy at IndieLisboa, in Lisbon

Filmmaker Sarah Maldoror raises her voice again, for so many people who remain silent, during our next edition. IndieLisboa – International Film Festival and Cinemateca Portuguesa present her cinematographic work

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Rest in Power, Sarah Maldoror (1929-2020)
Rest in Power, Sarah Maldoror (1929-2020)

The Screen Worlds team would like to express our most heartfelt gratitude to the pioneering filmmaker Sarah Maldoror, who passed away in Paris this week from Covid-19 complications. Sarah was

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To Sarah Maldoror…who, camera in hand, fights oppression, alienation
and defies human bullshit

Lisa SmithNY
The New Inquiry

Though her name remains unfamiliar to most, the French­born filmmaker's work is central to postcolonial African cinema

Sight & Sound

Maldoror brought to the screen the "shadow songs" of negritude and the liberation struggles of African countries.

John McGillTX
Cahiers Du Cinema