I imagine it’s a thrill for any filmmaker to share a documentary with an audience. Since the premiere of our film “Sembene!” three years ago, I’ve had the luck to be able to do that many times. But ...

Kino Lorber has acquired U.S. rights to SEMBENE!, the documentary about the life and legacy of film director, producer and writer Ousmane Sembene that is playing the Cannes Classics section of this ...

Dr. Ernest Cole of the Hope College English faculty hopes that his latest book, about Senegalese writer and filmmaker Ousmane Sembène, builds greater awareness not only of the man widely considered ...

At Film Forum, a retrospective of the Senegalese director’s work shows the care he took in telling female stories. By Kelli Weston A princess ascends from the water like a siren. The stony gaze of an ...

One of the pioneering figures in African cinema, the Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembène, died over this past weekend in Dakar at the age of 84. Sembène authored numerous works of fiction and ...

Ousmane Sembène, Senegalese author, scenarist and film director, has been making films for over 40 years. New Yorker Video has recently released two of Sembène’s earliest and most remarkable cinematic ...

For the uninitiated, Samba Gadjigo and Jason Silverman’s Sembene! offers a valuable entry into the canon of African cinema and its founding father: the late, great Senegalese pioneer Ousmane Sembene.

Widely regarded as the father of African cinema, the formidable Senegalese writer and director Ousmane Sembene (1923-2007) is now the subject of a film. Samba Gadjigo and Jason Silverman’s documentary ...

I became a socialist in the 1960s largely on the belief that capitalism held back civilization by preventing a large majority of the world’s population from reaching its maximum potential. If the ...

UPDATE The Joburg Film Festival defiantly went ahead with a screening of Ousmane Sembène’s “Black Girl” on Thursday, refusing to bow to political pressure after South Africa’s Film and Publications ...