Cinémalliance – Au cimetière de la pellicule [The Cemetary of Cinema]

Cinémalliance is a free movie screening – Booking is not required

Au cimetière de la pellicule [The Cemetary of Cinema] by Thierno Souleymane Diallo.

Cast : Marie-Louise Sarr, Dom Peter, Alpha Oumar Sow, Alpha Amadou Diouldé Diallo.

Documentary | 2023 | 1h33min

This film is screened as part of Documentary Film Month organised by L’Institut Français.

Synopsis :
In 1953, Mamadou Touré directed the film “Mouramani”, a film considered as the first ever made by a black French-speaking director. However, the mystery remains. No one knows where to find a print, neither if one even exists. “The Cemetery of Cinema” is the search for that film, also an ode to cinema, both the kind we watch and the kind we make. A road-movie from east to west, north to south, a film full of love, humor and tenderness towards his peers and the new generation to come but also a quest as Souleymane marches with a sign demanding “Mouramani”’s return…

French with English subtitles