UW Cinematheque - At the Chazen
SOLEIL Ô | France, Mauritania | 1970 | DCP | 102 min. | French, Arabic with English subtitles Director: Med Hondo
Event Details
Date
Sunday, November 16, 2025
Time
2 p.m.
Location
Description
Cast: Robert Liensol, Ambroise M’Bia, Bernard Fresson. A landmark of anti-colonial cinema, Soleil Ô flips the colonial gaze to expose the hypocrisies of postcolonial France through the eyes of a West African immigrant (Liensol) looking for work in Paris. Confronted with exclusion, exploitation, and institutional racism, our hero navigates a surreal, often absurdist landscape shaped by celebrated Mauritanian’ filmmaker Med Hondo (West Indies).
Cost
Free
Contact
Accessibility
We value inclusion and access for all participants and are pleased to provide reasonable accommodations for this event. Please call 608-262-3627 or email jehealy@wisc.edu to make a disability-related accommodation request. Requests should be made by Sunday, November 2, 2025, though reasonable effort will be made to support late accommodation requests.