LUMI Presents: Black Girl 
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Hailed as the first Sub-Saharan African film by an African filmmaker to reach an international audience, Black Girl is our LUMI Presents pick this month, chosen by our incredibly talented LUMI Programmers. Film accompanied by introduction by LUMI Programmer Molly Qualter.
Ousmane Sembène, who was also an acclaimed novelist in his native Senegal, transforms a deceptively simple plot—about a young Senegalese woman who moves to France to work for a wealthy white couple and finds that life in their small apartment becomes a figurative and literal prison—into a complex, layered critique on the lingering colonialist mindset of a supposedly postcolonial world.
Featuring a moving central performance by Mbissine Thérèse Diop, Black Girl is a harrowing human drama as well as a radical political statement—and one of the essential films of the 1960s.
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