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⏲ Duration: 53 min 66 sec ✓ Published: 17-Apr-2016
Description: This top ten film of 2015 (New York Magazine, RogerEbert.com) premiered at the Sundance and Cannes Film Festivals, winning numerous festival awards and broad acclaim. In 1952, Ousmane Sembene, a Senegalese dockworker and fifth-grade dropout, began dreaming an impossible dream: to become the storyteller for a new Africa. SEMBENE! tells the unbelievable true story of the self-taught “father of African cinema,” who fought enormous odds to return African stories to Africa. SEMBENE! uses rare arc
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