FILM COMMENT – I Write Your Name By Devika Girish May 9, 2025
Dear Readers, This week we invite you to grab on to us tightly (as if we knew the way) and explore two new showcases for underappreciated, or maybe just misunderstood,
First PanAfrican Cultural Festival – Screen Slate Podcast
After working as an assistant director on The Battle of Algiers (1966), Sarah Maldoror remained in the country to film First PanAfrican Cultural Festival (1969) with William Klein, Mohamed Bouramari, and Rabah Laradji. The polyrhythmic
MoMA presents: a full-scale retrospective of Sarah Maldoror
MoMA presents a full-scale retrospective of Sarah Maldoror (1929â2020), the first of its kind in North America, celebrating the pioneering French filmmaker whose work gave voice to the anti-colonial
Origins of African Nationalism – by MĂĄrio 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
CitĂ© 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
This book is a collection of essays and speeches by MĂĄrio Pinto de Andrade, the Angolan literary critic, cultural theorist and political activist and one of Africaâs most important 20th
November 19 and 20: Marseille
Films Femmes Mediterranée: tribute to Sarah Maldoror
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
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
November 7: Praia Cap-Vert
DjarFogo International Film Festival Former President of Cape Verde, Mr. Commmdanter Pedro Pires, will provide the Tribute Award to Sarah Maldoror https://filmfreeway.com/DjarFogoInternationalFilmFestival
October 29: Leeds (UK)
Sambizanga October 29 The Hyde Park Picture House, Leeds (UK) https://hpph.co.uk/films/sambizanga
October 12: Berlin
On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of Arsenal, screening of Aimé Césaire mask of words by Sarah Maldoror.