Presented by Black Girl Watching Film Club at Edge Hill Station, Black Girl is a thought provoking and elegant film that tells the story of Diouana, a young woman who moves from Senegal to France in the hopes of progressing her career and exploring a new country. However, when the couple she works for starts to become cruel and more demanding, her mental health suffers at the feet of ridicule and isolation. Touching on themes of alienation, colonialism, racism, societal and family pressures, Ousmane Sembene transforms his own short story into a timeless fable about the life of an immigrant.

On its 60th Anniversary, and for International Women’s Day, Black Girl Watching celebrates this important entry into black film history.

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Event timings
7pm – Door open
We’ll be serving refreshment
7.30pm – Black Girl begins
8.30pm – Post screening discussion

The film
Year: 1966
Runtime: 1 hour
Certificate: 15
Director: Ousmane Sembene
Writers: Ousmane Sembene
Country: France, Senegal
Languages: French, Wolof
Genre: Drama
Cast: Mbissine Thérèse Diop, Anne-Marie Jelinek, Momar Nar Sene
Synopsis: A young girl from Senegal moves to France to work as a nanny and experience a new country but soon learns that her racist employers have more sinister motives.
Trigger Warning: Racism, self harm, abuse