Screening |
Film/Video
101 Films You Need to See Before Graduation: Black Girl
Trailblazing filmmaker Ousmane Sembène’s debut film is essential viewing from the “father of African cinema.”
Date
Jan 11, 2026
Cost
$0.00 - $12.00
Time
1 p.m.
ET
Location
Wexner Center for the Arts
Film/Video Theater
(La noire de…, Ousmane Sembène, 1966)
Black Girl stars M’Bissine Thérèse Diop as a young woman who leaves Senegal to live out her dreams in France only to become gradually deadened by her work as a nanny. Sembène turns this simple conceit into a political commentary on the aftereffects of colonialism. The great film critic Manny Farber declared it the best movie of 1969, “a perfect short story that is unlike anything in the film library.” Black Girl remains one of the most significant achievements in film history. In French and Wolof with English subtitles. (65 mins., DCP)
Come early or stay after the January 11th screening to enjoy the final day of the fall 2026 exhibitions.