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Set in a small African village, four young girls face a ritual “purification” flee to the household of Colle’ Ardo Gallo Sy, a strong-willed woman who has managed to shield her own teenage daughter from mutilation.
Colle’ invokes the time-honored custom of moolaade (sanctuary) to protect the fugitives, and tension mounts as the ensuing stand-off pits Colle’ against a village traditionalists (both male and female) and endangers the prospective marriage of her daughter to the heir-apparent to the tribal throne.

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Female genital mutilation (FGM), also known as female genital cutting and female circumcision, is the ritual removal of some or all of the external female genitalia.
Traditionally, it is cut with an iron sheet or a knife, then sutured back with needlework or a thorn. There is no anesthetic during the whole process, and the disinfection is not thorough.
Gynecologist Dr Rosemary Mburu of Kenya estimate that as many as 15% of circumcised girls die of the excessive loss of blood or infection of the wound.
Even the girls who survive the circumcision will endure lifelong pain. The lower part of the body is always in pain while having sexual intercourse, urinating, or even working. This affects their ability to achieve orgasm or sexual pleasure of any kind and might also affect fertility.

Moolaadé.2004.PAL.DVD.x264-Tree.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/EE9F99ECDCDE4B5/Moolaade.2004.PAL.DVD.x264-Tree.mkv

Language(s):Bambara, French
Subtitles:English

The post Ousmane Sembene – Moolaadé (2004) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

In precolonial Senegal, members of the Ceddo (or “outsiders”) kidnap Princess Dior Yacine (Tabata Ndiaye) after her father, the king, pledges loyalty to an ascendant Islamic faction that plans to convert the entire clan to its faith. Attempts to recapture her fail, provoking further division and eventual war between the animistic Ceddo and the fundamentalist Muslims, with Christian missionaries and slave traders from Europe also playing a role in the conflict. Banned in Senegal upon its release, Ceddo is an ambitious, multilayered epic that explores the combustible tensions among ancient tradition, religious colonization, political expediency, and individual freedom.

Ceddo.1977.BDRIP.Criterion.4K.576p.x264.FLAC.KJNU.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 56 min
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https://nitro.download/view/E25A8862BB101CF/Ceddo.1977.BDRIP.Criterion.4K.576p.x264.FLAC.KJNU.mkv

Language(s):Wolof
Subtitles:English

The post Ousmane Sembene – Ceddo (1977) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

With revolutionary outrage, Ousmane Sembène chronicles a period during World War II when French colonial forces in Senegal conscripted young men of the Diola people and attempted to seize rice stores for soldiers back in Europe. As the tribe’s patriarchal leaders pray and make sacrifices to their gods, the women in the community refuse to yield their harvests, incurring the French army’s wrath. With a deep understanding of the oppressive forces that have shaped Senegalese history, Emitaï explores the strains that colonialism places upon cultural traditions and, in the process, discovers a people’s hidden reserves of rebellion and dignity.

Emitai.1971.BDRIP.Criterion.4K.576p.x264.FLAC.KJNU.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/816AE4293BAE206/Emitai.1971.BDRIP.Criterion.4K.576p.x264.FLAC.KJNU.mkv

Language(s):Wolof, French
Subtitles:English

The post Ousmane Sembene – Emitaï AKA God of Thunder (1971) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Ousmane Sembène was one of the greatest and most groundbreaking filmmakers who ever lived, as well as the most renowned African director of the twentieth century—and yet his name still deserves to be better known in the rest of the world. He made his feature debut in 1966 with the brilliant and stirring Black Girl. Sembène, who was also an acclaimed novelist in his native Senegal, transforms a deceptively simple plot—about a young Senegalese woman who moves to France to work for a wealthy white family and finds that life in their small apartment becomes a prison, both figuratively and literally—into a complexly layered critique of the lingering colonialist mind-set of a supposedly postcolonial world. Featuring a moving central performance by M’Bissine Thérèse Diop, Black Girl is a harrowing human drama as well as a radical political statement—and one of the essential films of the 1960s.

4.26GB | 59m 40s | 1480×1080 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/B581A896295EDE4/Black.Girl.1966.BDRIP.1080p.x264.FLAC.KJNU.mkv
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https://fikper.com/OBYfcSNWdK/Black.Girl.1966.BDRIP.1080p.x264.FLAC.KJNU.mkv

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English

The post Ousmane Sembene – La noire de… AKA Black Girl (1966) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Imagine, if you will, a story written for Akira Kurosawa. You know, one with armies clashing and sieges of great castles. Now imagine the story was done instead by a third-grade grammar-school class of about thirty people–the same heavy themes but where Kurosawa would show an army the play has to use two people. Instead of a castle there would be a tent. You would get a sort of “micro-epic.” Okay, now you have some idea what a “micro-epic” might be. Ousmane Sembene’s 1977 Senegalese film CEDDO is a very big film on a very small scale. The film, based on a true story, takes place in one village but it is still the stuff of epics.

In one small village in Senegal, three cultures are fighting for dominance: one worshiping the traditional village fetishes, one the new Islamic faith, and the third represented by two white Europeans. Admittedly, the latter are not so interested in converting souls as they are in trading guns for slaves. As the power shifts back and forth, more than one group decides it has to spend a few people on guns. The real catalyst of the events of the film occurs when three anti-Islamic villagers kidnap the daughter of the Islamic king. This starts a small-scale civil war that has a local band of Moslems (allies of the Islamic king against the anti- Islamic villagers) attempting to oust the king and seize control for themselves.

Although the film is set in the past, apparently at the time of both an ongoing Islamic and an early European penetration of traditional African society, its director, Sembène Ousmane, insists: “I can’t give a date. These events occurred in the 18th and 19th century and are still occurring” (1). Indeed, one crucial period for the expansion and consolidation of Islam amongst Wolof-speakers did not occur till after 1871 and the termination of the slave-trade. Thus, just as the village in the film is an exemplary microcosm of African (or at least West African) society in the throes of a crucial transition brought about by external pressures, and internal greed, ambition and dissension, so the time-span of the film (approximately a day and a half) offers an exemplary survey of two or more centuries of West African history.

1.62GB | 1h 56m | 732×458 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/789C4CBA113CEE8/Ceddo.mkv
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https://nitroflare.com/view/705831F004E577B/Ceddo.part1.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/7ECE930395CF089/Ceddo.part2.rar

Language(s):Wolof
Subtitles:French hardsubbed, English

The post Ousmane Sembene – Ceddo (1977) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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Burial of a Christian political activist in a Muslim cemetary forces a conflict imbued with religious fervor. A satiric portrayal of religion and politics, sometimes humorous, sometimes deadly serious.

1.59GB | 1h 54m | 698×436 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/4B973F35B247A3A/Guelwaar.mkv
or
https://nitroflare.com/view/3975A18792E3FCA/Guelwaar.part1.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/8AE4139FB004BA4/Guelwaar.part2.rar

Language(s):French, Wolof
Subtitles:English hardsubbed

The post Ousmane Sembene – Guelwaar (1992) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

As World War II is going on in Europe, a conflict arises between the French and the Diola-speaking tribe of Africa, prompting the village women to organize their men to sit beneath a tree to pray.

1.54GB | 1h 40mn | 768×576 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/D73CBAAAAE19D4C/Emitai_%281971%29_–_Ousmane_Sembene.part1.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/57F2A04EB528679/Emitai_%281971%29_–_Ousmane_Sembene.part2.rar

Language(s):Wolof | French
Subtitles:English, French (muxed)

The post Ousmane Sembene – Emitaï AKA God of Thunder (1971) first appeared on Cinema of the World.