Ousmane Sembène’s La Noire de… (Black Girl, 1966) was the first feature-length film made by a Black African director. Premiering at the First World Festival of Black Arts in Dakar in April 1966 and winning the Prix Jean Vigo at Cannes the same year, it offers a searing critique of neocolonialism and antiblackness between Senegal and France. The film follows Diouana (M’Bissine Thérèse Diop), a young Senegalese woman who moves from Dakar to Antibes to work for a white French family. Once in France, she is confined to their apartment, subjected to mistreatment and everyday racism. Her final act is both harrowing and powerful. The film remains a landmark in African cinemas and urgently contemporary today. The screening of La Noire de... will be accompanied by Johanna Makabi's Notre mémoire (Our Memory, 2021), a short documentary portrait in which M’Bissine Thérèse Diop reflects on her experience as a Black actress in the 1960s, revisiting her starring role in Sembène's first film. After the screening, join Alain Sembène (son of Ousmane Sembène), Johanna Makabi (director of Our Memory), Dr Doyle Calhoun (University of Cambridge), and Yasmina Price (Yale University) for a conversation. This public screening concludes a three-day film series and international symposium marking the upcoming 60th anniversary of La Noire de… held at the University of Cambridge. More details here: https://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/47520/ A note about content: The film La Noire de.../Black Girl includes depictions of racism, specifically anti-Blackness, and suicide. The post-screening discussion may also involve discussion of these themes as well as the contexts of slavery, colonial history, neocolonisation, and empire. Please use your discretion and take care as you watch and listen. If you or someone you know is struggling or in crisis, you can find locate additional resources here (NHS) and here (Black Minds Matter UK).