Paulin Soumanou Vieyra Trailers
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Benin-born, Senegal-raised filmmaker, theorist, and historian Paulin Soumanou Vieyra was a key figure, as both practitioner and thinker, in the creation and articulation of what a post-colonial African cinema would and could be. Along with producing essential texts like “Film and the Problem of Languages in Africa“ and “Remarks on African Cinema,” founding the important Fédération Panafricaine des Cinéastes, and mentoring the likes of Ousmane Sembène, Djibril Diop Mambéty, and Ababacar Samb-Makharam, Vieyra turned out a vital body of film work, documenting the birth of a new continental consciousness.
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02 January 1966
A young fisherman dreams of motorizing his boat to make his work easier. His dream becomes reality, thanks to his courage and his determination but causes conflict between traditional values and the modern notion of progress.
01 October 1975
A rich businessman in Senegal is cursed with crippling erectile dysfunction upon the day of his marriage to his third wife; the only cure is brutal public humiliation.
02 January 1965
Sindiely tells the story of a greedy father wishing to marry his daughter to a successful fabric merchant, despite her love for another young man.
31 December 1982
During an interview with the filmmaker Paulin Vieyra, the painter Iba Ndiaye recalls key moments of his life.
01 June 1954
The nostalgia of an African student in Paris for Africa. Graduation film by Paulin Soumanou VIEYRA, one of the pioneers of African cinemas.
02 January 1970
A young unemployed man fends off accusations of laziness and makes a home for his pregnant girlfriend who has been rejected by her family.
02 January 1961
Une nation est née depicts the progression of Senegal from colonization to sovereignty, shown allegorically through scenes of dance and celebrations of its newly-reclaimed independence.
01 January 1981
Birago Diop appears as the pioneer of African letters. He knew the long journey of poets of blackness from the 30s.
01 January 1971
Newsreel of the third Festival of the Arts in the Nigerian city of Ife, launched in the city’s university.
09 February 1973
As World War II rages in Europe, a conflict arises between the French and the Diola-speaking tribe of Africa, prompting the village women to organize their men to sit beneath a tree to pray.
19 May 1948
Émile Boulard is a props man in a Paris movie studio. He has a wife, Suzanne. Or to be more accurate, let's say he HAD a wife since she left him fifteen years before, allegedly .
12 September 1947
In France during World War I, Marthe waits for her husband, Jacques, while he fights on the front lines.
16 February 1978
The Ceddo people try to preserve their traditional African culture against the onslaught of Islam, Christianity, and the slave trade.
02 January 1955
This film is widely regarded as the first film made by an African south of the Sahara. Labelled an “ethnological documentary in reverse,” it shows 1950s Paris from the cinematic perspective of a group of African immigrants.
22 January 1948
Betrayed by his wife, a teacher proceeds to have an affair with a young and pretty student. The two women both find themselves expecting a child.
26 April 1964
The traditional struggle, known as Lamb in Wolof, which recalls the Greco-Roman struggle, is a popular national sport in Senegal.
01 January 1981
Paulin Vieyra captures Ousmane Sembène, one of the greatest filmmakers of Africa, during the filming of Ceddo.
01 January 1965
A hunter dies in a lion's jaws and leaves a wife and two children. The elder child, who is now the only man around the house, is called the little husband.
02 January 1981
The president of an African country is closely allied with European entrepreneurs for his own benefit and theirs.
01 April 1966
Promotional newsreel of Dakar, selected to host the first edition of the World Festival of Black Arts.
