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Sembene!

Cannes Favorites • 1h 29m

Directed by Samba Gadjigo, Jason Silverman • Documentary • 2015 • US, Senegal • English, French, Wolof with English subtitles
Featuring Ousmane Sembene, Mbissine Therese Diop, Samba Gadjigo

In 1952, Ousmane Sembene, a dockworker and fifth-grade dropout from Senegal, began dreaming an impossible dream: to become the storyteller for a new Africa. "Sembene!" tells the unbelievable true story of the father of African cinema, the self- taught novelist and filmmaker who fought, against enormous odds, a 50-year battle to return African stories to Africans.

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