The Cemetery of Cinema (2020)

- Original title
- Au cimetière de la pellicule
- Directed by
- Thierno Souleymane Diallo
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- Guinea
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Rated
- TP
- Rating
- 7.7 of 10 from 6 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A Guinean filmmaker travels across his country looking for a lost film from 1953, the first movie made by a Black French-speaking African. Along the way he learns about the past and present of cinema in Guinea and searches for a copy of the missing film in France.
reflectivesearchingnostalgicinquisitivemelancholicpersonalarchivalslow-pacedcontemplative
What happens
Au cimetière de la pellicule est un film documentaire guinéen réalisé en 2023 par Thierno Souleymane Diallo.. Thierno parcourt la Guinée à la recherche de Mouramani, premier film tourné en 1953 à Paris par un Noir d'Afrique francophone. Dans cette quête il découvre ce que fut le cinéma dans son pays et ce qu'il est devenu. Confrontant sa caméra à l'Histoire, il cherche jusqu'en France une copie de ce film disparu. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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