Sarah Maldoror Movies

  • 1995
    Léon G. Damas

    Léon G. Damas

    Léon G. Damas

    91995HD

    Léon G. Damas (1912–1978) was the first poet to “live Négritude”, according to the Senegalese poet, politician and...

    Léon G. Damas
  • 1966
    The Women

    The Women

    The Women

    81966HD

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

    The Women
  • 1970
    Guns for Banta

    Guns for Banta

    Guns for Banta

    01970HD

    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,...

    Guns for Banta
  • 2003
    Regards de mémoire

    Regards de mémoire

    Regards de mémoire

    02003HD

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

    Regards de mémoire
  • 1984
    Toto Bissainthe

    Toto Bissainthe

    Toto Bissainthe

    01984HD

    A portrait of Haitian singer Toto Bissainthe, whose musical journey is marked by her desire to disseminate creole singing.

    Toto Bissainthe
  • 1979
    Fogo, Fire Island

    Fogo, Fire Island

    Fogo, Fire Island

    01979HD

    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
  • 2005
    Scala Milan AC

    Scala Milan AC

    Scala Milan AC

    02005HD

    Some teenagers sign up for the contest: "Describe your neighborhood", whose first prize is a trip to Milan. As the youngsters are football fans and...

    Scala Milan AC
  • 1999
    Sarah Maldoror ou la nostalgie de l'utopie

    Sarah Maldoror ou la nostalgie de l'utopie

    Sarah Maldoror ou la nostalgie de l'utopie

    01999HD

    Sarah Maldoror ou la nostalgie de l'utopie is a Togolese short documentary film directed by Anne-Laure Folly. It was released in 1999. The film is a...

    Sarah Maldoror ou la nostalgie de l'utopie
  • 1979
    Miró, The Painter

    Miró, The Painter

    Miró, The Painter

    01979HD

    Short piece for the TV series Aujourd'hui en France [Today in France]. The review of an exhibition by Miró at the Maeght Foundation offers the...

    Miró, The Painter
  • 1987
    Rencontre avec Assia Djebar

    Rencontre avec Assia Djebar

    Rencontre avec Assia Djebar

    01987HD

    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
  • 2011
    Foreword to Guns for Banta

    Foreword to Guns for Banta

    Foreword to Guns for Banta

    02011HD

    Originally an analog slide show made for two projectors, this work recounts the making of Sarah Maldoror's lost and surely never-to-be-seen first...

    Foreword to Guns for Banta
  • 1998
    Tribu du bois de l'E

    Tribu du bois de l'E

    Tribu du bois de l'E

    01998HD

    In this documentary about Reunion Island, Maldoror begins with a look at an exhibition by sculptor Alain Seraphine, with automated drumming machines...

    Tribu du bois de l'E
  • 1978
    Louis Aragon, a mask in Paris

    Louis Aragon, a mask in Paris

    Louis Aragon, a mask in Paris

    01978HD

    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...

    Louis Aragon, a mask in Paris