Sarah Maldoror

Director

Born: July 19, 1929
Died: April 13, 2020 (age 90)
From: Condom, France

Sarah Maldoror (in Arabic: سارة مالدورور), whose real name was Marguerite Sarah Ducados, was a French filmmaker and director, born on July 19, 1929 in Condom (Gers) and died on April 13, 2020 in Fontenay-lès-Briis (Essonne). Her cinema is poetic but also political and committed. She is considered a leading figure in African cinema and the first female director on the continent. Born to a…

Filmography (54)

Mário (2024)
Foreword to Guns for Banta (2011)
Afrique[s], une autre histoire du XXème siècle - Acte 1
Afrique[s], une autre histoire du XXème siècle - Acte 1 (2010)
self
Papa Césaire (2009)
Director
Ana Mercedes Hoyos (2009)
Director
Voisins, voisines (2005)
Mme Patisson
Scala Milan AC (2005)
Director
Les oiseaux mains (2005)
Director
Memory's Gaze (2003)
Director
Sisters of the Screen - African Women in the Cinema (2002)
Self
Sarah Maldoror ou la nostalgie de l'utopie (1999)
Self
Tribu du bois de l'E (1998)
Director
L'Enfant cinéma (1996)
Director
Léon G. Damas (1995)
Director
Vlady (1989)
Director
Robert Doisneau, photographe (1987)
Director
Le Passager du Tassili (1987)
Director
Rencontre avec Assia Djebar (1987)
Director
Aimé Césaire: The Mask of Words (1987)
Director
First International Conference for Black Women (1986)
Director
A Senegalese Man in Normandy (1986)
Director
Tunisian Literature at the French National Library (1986)
Director
Point Virgule (1986)
Director
Alberto Carlisky (1986)
Director
Point Virgule, Youth Journal (1986)
Director
Portrait of Christiane Diop (1985)
Director
Portrait of an African Woman (1985)
Director
Public Writer (1985)
Director
Claudel in Reims (1984)
Director
Toto Bissainthe (1984)
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