Niaye
Adopted from Sembène’s own novel White Genesis, Niaye is a short film about a 13-year-old girl from a small village whose pregnancy scandalizes her community.
Adopted from Sembène’s own novel White Genesis, Niaye is a short film about a 13-year-old girl from a small village whose pregnancy scandalizes her community. Though a visiting worker is accused of impregnating her, the father of the young woman’s baby is, in fact, her own father. Sembène offers a vital portrait of a village in moral decline. 'Niaye' is screening with:
Moolaadé
Sun 16 June, 10:30am, Art Gallery of New South Wales
- Program Strand
- Ousmane Sembene Retrospective
- Year
- 1964
- Classification
- Unclassified 15+
- Country
- Senegal, France
- Language
- In French and Wolof with English subtitles
- Director
- Ousmane Sembène
- Producer
- Ousmane Sembène
- Cast
- Serigne Sow, Astou N'Diaye, Mame Dia
- Screenwriter
- Ousmane Sembène
- Cinematographer
- Georges Caristan
- Editor
- André Gaudier
- Genre
- Africa, Politics & Economics, Cinephile, Human Rights, Retrospective
