Black Girl

Synopsis: A French-Senegalese drama film and the directorial debut of Ousmane Sembene, often considered to be the first Sub-Saharan African film by an African-born director to be recognised internationally. A young woman emigrates from Senegal to France to work as a nanny for a French couple, only to be poorly treated by her employers and forced into menial servitude. While negatively received by Western critics at the time, it has since come to be viewed as a classic of world cinema.

“at once powerfully of its moment and permanently contemporary... the force of Mr. Sembène's art—the sheer beauty that is the most striking feature of his early films—lies in his humanism.”~A. O. Scott, The New York Times