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Monangambeee

6.8(10)196818m2

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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  • 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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