Black Girl
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The true story of a young Senegalese girl who moves to France to work as a nanny, but is soon treated as a slave. Sembène’s first feature film took him, and African cinema, to international acclaim.
Based on a short story written by Sembène himself, Black Girl follows a painfully shy young Senegalese woman recruited as a nanny for a French family. The heartrending character is wonderfully performed by the outstanding non-professional Mbissine Thérèse Diop as Diouana. Whilst she is initially excited at the appointment, Diouana’s relocation to Antibes for work uncovers a hidden side to her employers, and she is slowly forced into the role of a domestic slave. Black Girl is startling and harrowing, a domestic horror story revealing the injustices of colonialism. 
- Program Strand
- Ousmane Sembene Retrospective
- Original Title
- LA NOIRE DE...
- Year
- 1966
- Classification
- Unclassified 15+
- Country
- Senegal
- Language
- In Wolof and French with English subtitles
- Director
- Ousmane Sembène
- Producer
- André Zwoboda
- Cast
- Mbissine Thérèse Diop, Anne-Marie Jelinek, Robert Fontaine
- Screenwriter
- Osumane Sembène
- Cinematographer
- Christian Lacoste
- Editor
- André Gaudier
- Genre
- Africa, Festival Award Winners, Cinephile, Human Rights, Retrospective
- Company Credits
- Print Source: Janus Films
