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The Cemetery of Cinema (2020)

The Cemetery of Cinema poster
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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