Film on Sembene opens today at Lincoln Center

Sembene!, the story of the “father of African cinema,”, told by a close friend and autobiographer Samba Gadjigo opens today in New York at the Lincoln Plaza Cinemas.

Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembene, a self-taught novelist and filmmaker fought against enormous odds a 50-year battle to return African stories to Africans.

 

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