01 MAY — 11 MAY 2024

01 MAY — 11 MAY 2024

Carnival in the Sahel

Sarah Maldoror

Cape Verde
1979, 28'

Carnival is an event and a festivity where the limits can be transgressed in a context brimming with music, sensations and textures. In this film, it is also a starting point for an approach on the history of black culture and colonialism, with concepts of identity and blackness taking center stage.

Retrospective

INFO

ORIGINAL TITLE
Cap-Vert, Un carnaval dans le Sahel
LANGUAGE
French / Portuguese (PT)

BIO

After studying theatre and creating the first Black troupe in Paris, Les Griots, Sarah Maldoror studied cinema in Moscow. Her sharp body of work, which consists of 46 films, is the reflection of a bold warrior who is curious, generous, irreverent and who looks out for others, taking poetics beyond every boundary. An outspoken rebel and a resolute humanist, Sarah Maldoror celebrated the engagement of the artist and art as an act of freedom.

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