Sarah Maldoror Movies

  • 1986
    Point Virgule, Youth Journal

    Point Virgule, Youth Journal

    Point Virgule, Youth Journal

    01986HD

    In this short piece, fledgling editors, reporters, and illustrators describe their work on Point Virgule, a newspaper by and for young people,...

    Point Virgule, Youth Journal
  • 1999
    Sarah Maldoror ou la nostalgie de l'utopie

    Sarah Maldoror ou la nostalgie de l'utopie

    Sarah Maldoror ou la nostalgie de l'utopie

    91999HD

    Sarah Maldoror ou la nostalgie de l'utopie is a Togolese short documentary film directed by Anne-Laure Folly. It was released in 1999. The film is a...

    Sarah Maldoror ou la nostalgie de l'utopie
  • 1981
    René Depestre, poète haïtien

    René Depestre, poète haïtien

    René Depestre, poète haïtien

    01981HD

    Maldoror casts a sympathetic light on one of Haitian literature’s most influential figures, the poet and political activist René...

    René Depestre, poète haïtien
  • 1972
    Saint-Denis-sur-Avenir

    Saint-Denis-sur-Avenir

    Saint-Denis-sur-Avenir

    01972HD

    Saint-Denis-sur-Avenir describes the problems faced by works in one of Paris’s working-class suburbs.

    Saint-Denis-sur-Avenir
  • 1979
    Fogo, Fire Island

    Fogo, Fire Island

    Fogo, Fire Island

    01979HD

    Documentary about Cape Verde and the island of Fogo produced by the revolutionary government of the new country. A culture learning to live without...

    Fogo, Fire Island
  • 1985
    Portrait of Christiane Diop

    Portrait of Christiane Diop

    Portrait of Christiane Diop

    01985HD

    Sarah Maldoror reports on Christiane Diop, editor of the publishing house Présence africaine, which includes an interview with illustrator...

    Portrait of Christiane Diop
  • 1986
    Tunisian Literature at the French National Library

    Tunisian Literature at the French National Library

    Tunisian Literature at the French National Library

    01986HD

    Commemorating the 1986 Tunis-Paris exhibition Privileged Spaces and Times: French-Speaking Intellectual Production in Tunisia, Sarah Maldoror’s...

    Tunisian Literature at the French National Library
  • 1977
    The Basilica of Saint-Denis

    The Basilica of Saint-Denis

    The Basilica of Saint-Denis

    01977HD

    A short film about all facets of the Parisian Gothic basilica, which features both a cathedral and a necropolis, the latter containing tombs of...

    The Basilica of Saint-Denis
  • 1979
    Foreign-Inspired Architecture in Paris

    Foreign-Inspired Architecture in Paris

    Foreign-Inspired Architecture in Paris

    01979HD

    Sarah Maldoror finds inspiration in the hidden corners of Paris, where architecture was shaped by foreign styles and influences.

    Foreign-Inspired Architecture in Paris
  • 2026
    Scala Milan AC

    Scala Milan AC

    Scala Milan AC

    02026HD

    Some teenagers sign up for the contest: "Describe your neighborhood", whose first prize is a trip to Milan. As the youngsters are football fans and...

    Scala Milan AC
  • 1979
    Carnival in the Sahel

    Carnival in the Sahel

    Carnival in the Sahel

    01979HD

    Sarah Maldoror uses Carnival as her approach to the history of colonization and black culture. Carnival is understood here as a festivity during...

    Carnival in the Sahel
  • 1978
    Louis Aragon, a mask in Paris

    Louis Aragon, a mask in Paris

    Louis Aragon, a mask in Paris

    01978HD

    There is a gap separating the surrealism from the Interwar period and that of the post-war era, and that is the way this movement would understand...

    Louis Aragon, a mask in Paris
  • 1986
    First International Conference for Black Women

    First International Conference for Black Women

    First International Conference for Black Women

    01986HD

    In this report on an annual conference known as RIFEN, Black women from around the world gather to discuss points of common interest and need,...

    First International Conference for Black Women
  • 1986
    A Senegalese Man in Normandy

    A Senegalese Man in Normandy

    A Senegalese Man in Normandy

    01986HD

    The Senegalese man of the film’s title is Léopold Sédar Senghor, the poet and first president of Senegal, who is remembered by...

    A Senegalese Man in Normandy
  • 1986
    Alberto Carlisky

    Alberto Carlisky

    Alberto Carlisky

    01986HD

    Maldoror traces the dramatic life of the self-taught sculptor Alberto Carlisky, who fled his native Argentina after being imprisoned in 1944 by the...

    Alberto Carlisky
  • 2011
    Foreword to Guns for Banta

    Foreword to Guns for Banta

    Foreword to Guns for Banta

    02011HD

    Originally an analog slide show made for two projectors, this work recounts the making of Sarah Maldoror's lost and surely never-to-be-seen first...

    Foreword to Guns for Banta
  • 1996
    L'Enfant cinéma

    L'Enfant cinéma

    L'Enfant cinéma

    61996HD

    Film dedicated to Toto Bissainthe, the Haitian singer that Sarah Maldoror also filmed at an earlier stage. Here, the magic of cinema is summoned and...

    L'Enfant cinéma