Remembering Sarah Maldoror
English | Free Admission
Talk with Annouchka de Andrade (archivist and co-founder of Les Amis de Sarah & Mario)
Hosted by: Janine Gaëlle Diedji (curator and co-founder of The Recovery Plan) and Ludovica Fales (curator of Sarah Maldoror's tribute)
"Before being a filmaker, woman and mother, Sarah was a fundamentally poetic person.She did not compartementalise her life into different sections. Everything she decided on, acted upon, was linked to multiple dimensions. She was original, generous, and always surprising. In one of our last conversations at the hospital, she spoke only of her admiration for the nurses and wondered whether we - her daughters - needed anything".
Local Time
- Timezone: America/New_York
- Date: 04 Nov 2025
- Time: 12:30
Location
- Via Santa Reparata, 19R, 50129 Firenze FI
Organizer
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Sarah Maldoror
Sarah Maldoror (1929–2020) was a French director, Pan-African by adoption, revolutionary voice, and the first female filmmaker in African cinema. She chronicled the wars of liberation in the former Portuguese colonies, with a particular focus on the role of women in the struggle. After founding the first theater company of black actors in France, Les Griots, in 1956, she was assistant director to Pontecorvo for The Battle of Algiers in 1966, and then to William Klein for Festival panafricain d'Alger (1969). Her first feature film was also the first ever made by an African female director: Sambizanga (1972). Her other major works include her debut short film Monangambééé (1969), Aimé Césaire, un homme une terre (1976), Aimé Césaire – Le Masque des mots (1987), Portrait de Assia Djebar (1989), and Léon G. Damas (1994).
