Friday, February 23 • 7pm

Au cimetière de la pellicule (The Cemetery of Cinema)
Thierno Souleymane Diallo, DCP, 93 min
France / Senegal / Guinea, 2023 (French, Eastern Maninkakan, Pulaar)

US premiere

In 1953, Mamadou Touré directed Mouramani, a film considered to be the first ever made by an African francophone director. But today no one knows where to find a print of it nor if one even exists. This documentary is a road movie in search of that film across Africa and Europe, an ode to cinema, both the kind we watch and the kind we make.

Co-sponsored by the Department of Film, Video, Animation, and New Genres