Early Ousmane Sembène Film Series: Emitaï

Yale Film Archive
Event time: 
Sunday, October 8, 2023 - 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Location: 
Humanities Quadrangle (HQ) See map
320 York Street
New Haven, CT 06511

Emitaï (Ousmane Sembène, 1971, DCP, 103 mins)

When the men are conscripted into World War II, the women of a Diola village hide the rice crop in revolt, blocking French taxation. Named for the god of thunder, Emitaï emphasizes the collective in its politics and its camerawork, and offers one of cinema’s most defiant death scenes. In Diola and French with English subtitles. DCP from Janus Films.

The series “Early Ousmane Sembène: The First Films from the Father of African Cinema” is presented by the Yale Film Archive and the Whitney Humanities Center in celebration of the centenary of Sembène’s birth.

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