Screening followed by a Q&A and a discussion in French and in English with Annabelle Aventurin and Johanna Makabi in attendance moderated by Karen Diop and Moya Kouame.
Synopsis
Sarah Maldoror makes the voice of Guyanese poet Léon-Gontran Damas heard while drifting between the landscapes in which the writer lived, from Cayenne to Paris. His peers (Césaire, Senghor) bear witness to the poetic force of this founder of Négritude.
Biographies
Sarah Maldoror
French of Antillan origin, Sarah Maldoror is a poet who strives to translate into images the cultural, social and political movement of negritude among others. A new visual and narrative syntax for a different identity. Her work began in the theater with the creation of the first black theater company – Les griots – and after studying cinema in Moscow, she joined international decolonization movements in Africa. It attaches fundamental importance to solidarity between the oppressed, to political repression, and to Culture as the only means of uplifting a society.
Her work is resolutely humanist which celebrates the commitment of the artist and art as an act of freedom.
Annabelle Aventurin
Annabelle Aventurin is an audiovisual archivist and film programmer. In 2022, she produced her first documentary essay, Le Roi n’est pas mon cousin (30’), programmed in around fifty film festivals.
Johanna Makabi
Born and raised in Paris from Senegalese and Congolese parents, Johanna Makabi is a filmmaker, writer and producer. She also worked as an assistant on feature films such as Cuties by Maïmouna Doucouré and Winter Boy by Christophe Honoré. She was elected member of the board of Le Collectif 50/50 aiming for more equity and diversity in French cinema.
