Black Girl (La Noire de …)

1966
Senegal / France
1h
12

Directed by: Ousmane Sembene
Cast: Mbissine Thérèse Diop, Anne-Marie Jelinek, Robert Fontaine

Thought to be the first feature by a director from sub-Saharan Africa, this film tells the tragic tale of Diouana (Diop), a young Senegalese woman who finds work as a childminder for a couple in Dakar. When the couple returns to the south of France, she goes with them, dreaming of a life of luxury. But things don't turn out as she hoped.