

Monangambeee
Filmmaker-griot coming from the theater, it was with a camera, while the war in Vietnam occupied everyone's minds, that Sarah Maldoror gave visibility to the African wars of decolonization: Angola, Guinea Bissau, French Guinea, Cape Verde... Her short film Monangambée addresses the torture by the Portuguese army of a sympathizer of the Angolan resistance. At the end of editing, Sarah Maldoror approached the members of the Art Ensemble of Chicago during a Parisian concert and offered to add sound to her film. The next day they watched the film, were convinced and recorded their first soundtrack for free as evidence of African-American solidarity. Shot in Algiers, Monangambée is a film about torture and, more broadly, about the incomprehension between the colonized and the colonizers. It is based on a novel by the Angolan writer Luandino Vieira, then imprisoned by the Portuguese colonial power.
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- Language
- French
- woman director
- anti-colonialism
- short film
- panafricanism
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Angola, Algeria
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AngolaAO
- TheatricalSource: MUBI1 Jan 1968
FranceFR
- PremiereCannes Film Festival13 May 1971
GermanyDE
- PremiereBerlin International Film Festival28 Jun 1971
TaiwanTW
- PremiereWomen Make Waves International Film Festival (4K Restoration)18 Oct 2026
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Monangambeee was released on 1 January 1968.
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