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Short Films by Johanna Makabi • 11m

Directed by Johanna Makabi | 12 mins | 2021
Mbissine Thérèse Diop, the underrecognized star of Ousmane Sembene’s masterpiece "Black Girl," reflects on the challenges and realities of her role in an epochal moment in cinema, at home in her Paris apartment.

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