Sarah Maldoror Movies

Short piece for the TV series Aujourd'hui en France [Today in France]. Reporting on a Joan Miró exhibition at the Maeght Foundation, Sarah...

In this documentary about Reunion Island, Maldoror begins with a look at an exhibition by sculptor Alain Seraphine, with automated drumming machines...

Exploring the extraordinary contributions of women filmmakers from Africa and the diaspora, Beti Ellerson’s engaging debut intersperses...

First staged in Krakow and the Gdansk shipyards in 1980, where Poland’s Solidarity movement was born, and here performed at the...

Sarah Maldoror documents the opening of the Théâtre Noir de Paris, a Négritude-inspired theater company and cultural association...

Sarah Maldoror interviews women of different nationalities who serve as “public” writers, linking French administrative bodies with...

In this segment on immigrant cultures for the television program Mosaïque, a young Senegalese woman who cooks in a workers’ hostel dreams...

Commemorating the 1986 Tunis-Paris exhibition Privileged Spaces and Times: French-Speaking Intellectual Production in Tunisia, Sarah Maldoror’s...

Film dedicated to Toto Bissainthe, the Haitian singer that Sarah Maldoror also filmed at an earlier stage. Here, the magic of cinema is summoned and...

Sarah Maldoror finds inspiration in the hidden corners of Paris, where architecture was shaped by foreign styles and influences.

Maldoror reports on a painting exhibition of the Cuban artist Wifredo Lam at the Artcurial gallery in Paris in 1980.

Saint-Denis-sur-Avenir describes the problems faced by works in one of Paris’s working-class suburbs.

A portrait of Haitian singer Toto Bissainthe, whose musical journey is marked by her desire to disseminate creole singing.

In this report on an annual conference known as RIFEN, Black women from around the world gather to discuss points of common interest and need,...

Maldoror traces the dramatic life of the self-taught sculptor Alberto Carlisky, who fled his native Argentina after being imprisoned in 1944 by the...

Maldoror casts a sympathetic light on one of Haitian literature’s most influential figures, the poet and political activist René...

Guns for Banta is the first feature-length film by Sarah Maldoror. Shot in Guinea-Bissau, it follows the life and untimely death of Awa, a...

Documentary about Colombian artist Ana Mercedes Hoyos, which deals with slavery and Afro-Caribbean cultures.

For the France 3 show, Mosaïque, Sarah Maldoror met Assia Djebar on Sunday March 29, 1987 on the occasion of the publication of her book Ombre...