A Tribute to Ousmane Sembène

After the mysterious death of Guelwaar ("the noble one"), a political activist and leader of the local Christian community, his corpse is mistakenly buried in a Muslim cemetery. Guelwaar blends black comedy, political allegory and social satire in a biting indictment of African corruption and neocolonial Western aid. In Wolof and French with English subtitles. Senegal, 1993, 35mm, color, subtitled, 115 min. With Thierno N'diaye, Ndiawar Diop, Myriam Niang.