| Screening Schedule |
| Friday, November 14, 2008 |
| Saturday, November 15, 2008 |
| Sunday, November 16, 2008 |
| Monday, November 17, 2008 |
| Tuesday, November 18, 2008 |
| Wednesday, November 19, 2008 |
| Thursday, November 20, 2008 |
| Friday, November 21, 2008 |
| Saturday, November 22, 2008 |
| Sunday, November 23, 2008 |
The screening schedule of the 49th T.I.F.F. is also available in.pdf format
There are extra screenings of Greek films on Monday the 24th, is available in .pdf format.
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| Director | | Ousmane Sembene | 
Filmography
1963 Borom Sarret/The Cart Driver (short)
1963 L’Empire Songhaï/The Songhaï Empire (short doc.)
1964 Niaye (short)
1966 La Noire de.../Black Girl
1968 Mandabi/The Money Order
1969 (Traumatisme de la femme face à la) polygamie/
Women and the Trauma of Polygamy (doc.)
1969 Problème de l’emploi a.k.a. Les Dérives du chômage/
Unemployment Problems (doc)
1970 Tauw (short)
1971 Emitaï/God of Thunder
1972 Jeux Olympiques de Munich/The Munich Olympic Games (doc.)
1974 Xala/The Curse
1976 Ceddo
1988 Camp de Thiaroye/Camp Thiaroye
1992 Guelwaar
1999 L’héroisme au quotidian/Daily Heroism (short)
2000 Faat Kiné
2004 Moolaadé
Biography
He was born in 1923 and died in 2007. He is a Senegalese writer, chronicler and film director, best-known for his historical- political works with strong social comment. In the 1960s he developed an interest in the cinema and went to the Gorki Institute in Moscow to study film production. His Black Girl was the first film ever produced by an African filmmaker and won the Jean Vigo Award at the Cannes IFF 1966. He often turned his short stories and novels into films. During his career as a director, he received several international awards and his films were immensely popular in Africa.
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Black Girl / Ousmane Sembene |  Diouana, a young black Senegalese woman, is brought to Antibes by a French couple, previously stationed in Dakar, to work as a governess for their children. She quickly discovers that she must do the cooking, laundry, cleaning and baby-sitting.Without salary or friends, treated as an invisible by her employers and confined to the house except for shopping, she sinks into despair. Her dream of France as the Promised Land is shattered
| | Director: | Ousmane Sembene | | Script: | Ousmane Sembene,based on a short story by Ousmane Sembene | | Photographer: | Christian Lacoste | | Montage: | André Gaudier | | With: | Thérèse M’Bissine Diop (Diouana), Momar Nar Sene (the young man), Anne-Marie Jelinek (Madame), Robert Fontaine (Monsieur), Ibrahima (young boy with mask) | | World Sales: | La Mediatheque des Trois Mondes, France
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cine3mondes@wanadoo.fr | | Producer: | André Zwobada | | Production: | Les Films Domirev | | Production Country: | Senegal-France | | Co-production: | Les Actualités Françaises | | Type: | 35mm B&W | | Duration: | 65' | | Production Year: | 1966 | | Screening Schedule | | JOHN CASSAVETES: | Friday, November 14, 2008 - 15:30 | | PAVLOS ZANNAS: | Saturday, November 15, 2008 - 15:00 | | Return |
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