Paulin Soumanou Vieyra
Director · Actor · WriterBenin-born, Senegal-raised filmmaker, theorist, and historian Paulin Soumanou Vieyra was a key figure, as both practitioner and thinker, in the creation and articulation of what a post-colonial African cinema would and could be. Along with producing essential texts like “Film and the Problem of Languages in Africa“ and “Remarks on African Cinema,” founding the important Fédération Panafricaine des Cinéastes, and mentoring the likes of Ousmane Sembène, Djibril Diop Mambéty, and Ababacar Samb-Makharam, Vieyra turned out a vital body of film work, documenting the birth of a new continental consciousness.
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Iba N'Diaye
1982
Director
Under House Arrest
1981
Director
Behind the Scenes: The Making of Ceddo
1981
Director
Birago Diop, Storyteller
1981
Director
- Ife / 3ème Festival des Arts
Ife / 3ème Festival des Arts
1971
Director
Le Sénégal et le Festival Mondial des Arts Nègres
1966
Director
Môl
1966
Director
N'Diongane
1965
Director
Sindiely
1965
Director
Lamb
1964
Director
A Nation is Born
1961
Director
Africa on the Seine
1955
Director
It was four years ago
1954
Director
