Free film screening at the University of Washington Bothell | Diversity Center featuring La Noire de… (Black Girl, 1966).

La Noire de… (Trans. as "The black girl/woman of…" or "black girl from…") is a French-Senegalese film that elicits critical discourses on the effects of colonialism, neocoloniality, racism, post-colonial identity in Africa and Europe.

Writer/Director: Ousmane Sembene

Features: Mbissine Thérèse Diop

Audio: French | Subtitles: English

This seminal work of Sembene’s is considered to be the first film by a sub-Saharan African filmmaker to receive critical international recognition.

Also available by Criterion.