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Mandabi (PG)
Directed by Ousmane Sembene
★★★
HAILED as the “father of African cinema,” Ousmane Sembene’s trailblazing 1968 Mandabi (“money order”) has been painstakingly restored in 4K resolution and is being released for the first time in Britain.
The first ever film to have been made in an African language (Wolof) it is a sharp and poignant satire on post independence and the lasting effects of colonialism on African nations.
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