Ousmane Sembène's "Moolaadé" wins the Un Certain Regard prize at Cannes

[AP]

Sembène's Black Girl (1966) (http://imdb.com/title/tt0060758/) is an incredibly powerful and unfogetable movie about imperialism and colonialism. Everyon should see it. It's great that his latest movie is getting attention. (It's about female genital mutiliation.) So, rent Black Girl (if you can find it), and go see Moolaadé in a theater near you (or, beg a theater near you to show it).


"Moolaadé" wins the Un Certain Regard prize

The Un Certain Regard prize has been awarded to the only African film in the official selection at this year's Cannes: Moolaadé from Senegalese director Ousmane Sembène. The Prize of Regard Original went to Whisky, a Uruguayan film co-directed by Juan Pablo Revella and Pablo Stoll, and the Regard vers l'Avenir prize was given to Afghan director Atiq Rahimi for his Khâkestar-o-khâk (Earth and Ashes).

Moolaadé, a crusading film against female gential mutiliation, was brought to Cannes by the 81-year-old director (the oldest in the competition), accompanied by the wife of the Senegalese president, Viviane Wade, who came to “support African cinema and Senegalese culture.” Ousmane Sembène dedicated his eighth film to “mothers, women who fight for the abolition of this leftover of a time past.” Moolaadé is the second part of a triptych that began with Faat-Kiné and will conclude with The Brotherhood of the Rats, a city-based film about corruption.

The closing ceremony of Un Certain Regard was followed by the screening of Youssef Chahine's Alexandria... New York.

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[alfredo]

1. I see Cannes as a much better guage of what is good

in the world of cinema than the Oscars. The Oscars is not really an international film festival.