Thursday,
May 5 at 7:30pm
Reel
Voices Africa Film Series
Mandabi
(The Money Order)
dir. Ousmane Sembene, Senegal, 1968, 35mm, 90 mins, Wolof
w/ English subtitles
New
35mm Restoration
This
poignant comedy follows Ibrahima Deng, a fifty-year-old bumbler
with two wives and seven children, who comes into a small fortune,
only to be cheated out of it by petty bureaucrats and greedy
neighbors.
preceded
by
In
Their Own Voices: Mamady
dir.
Filmon Mebrahtu, USA, 2004, video,
4 mins, color
A portrait
of African immigrant Mamady, a Guinean artisan.
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