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It’s a pity that most movie lovers know so little, if anything, about African cinema, for the continent’s filmmakers have much to say. The one film some viewers may recognize is “Black Girl” (1966), a ...

Hello! I’m Mark Olsen. Welcome to another edition of your regular field guide to a world of Only Good Movies. More from the fests This week I am reaching you from Toronto, Canada, where I‘ll be for ...

What he really wanted was to spend Thanksgiving with his family. What he got was three days with the turkey.

At Film Forum, a retrospective of the Senegalese director’s work shows the care he took in telling female stories. By Kelli Weston Nikyatu Jusu’s new film, about a Senegalese woman who works as a ...

A fierce work of quasi-neorealist melodrama that melds pop cinema instincts and political indignation, Lino Brocka’s 1980 feature endures as a lively, searing parable on the plight of Filipino women ...

The Senegalese filmmaker, writer and social activist Ousmane Sembene, regarded as one of the pioneers of African cinema, died June 10 in Dakar. He was 84. Born into a humble fisherman’s family in the ...

A historic confrontation in 1965 between Jean Rouch and Ousmane Sembène : "You look at us as if we were insects" / Albert Cervoni -- Ousmane Sembène : for me, the cinema is an instrument of political ...

Even foreign film aficionados might not be able to reel off a list of classic African cinema or tell you why artists such as Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembène are said to be creating some of ...