BLACK CINEMA: „La Noire de… // Die Schwarze aus…" - mit Vorfilm „Borom Sarret"

In the organizer's words:

Two classics of postcolonial African cinema in one day: Sembéne, also known as the father of postcolonial African cinema, uses cinema as an activist space and captures supposedly everyday stories, only to expose them as multi-layered and sophisticated critiques of the so-called postcolonial world.
The debut "Borrom Sarret" is considered one of the first films by and about Africans. Sembéne follows a cart driver through the streets of Dakar, whose hard work still leaves him with less than before at the end of the day. (Sembène, FR SN 1963 - OVD)
In "La Noire de...", a young woman works as a nanny for a French family in Dakar. When they return to France, she decides to get to know France with the promise of a better life. But as soon as she arrives, she is reduced to a cheap cleaner and cook and her body is degraded to an exotic object. In the face of this racism, the young woman vows never to be a slave again and commits a radical act of resistance. (Sembène, FR SN 1966 - FSK 16 - OmdU)

More information: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Schwarze_aus_Dakar

YouTube trailer: https://youtu.be/mnN5Scc3ldY

We are showing the film in the original languages in French & Wolof with German subtitles.

Film series on the occasion of Black History Month 2025. For the second year in a row, the Ost-Passage Theater invites Black cultural workers to curate their own film program. Over the course of four evenings, the diversity and stories of Black film will take center stage. Together, viewers are invited to discover Black cinema or to find themselves in it.

ATTENTION: The events for Black History Month may exclude: colonial reproduction, cultural appropriation, racism, sexism, trans hostility, queer hostility or other forms of discrimination. More information on this in the awareness concept.

Price information:

4 Euro = no coal ticket 7 Euro = normal price, financing for "no coal" ticket