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Camp de Thiaroye

(Ousmane Sembène, 1988)

Introduced by African film scholar Dr. Timothy Nevin

New Restoration

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Feb 24, 2025 3:30 PM

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Banned in France for more than a decade after its debut, Camp de Thiaroye is a historical corrective by the great Senegalese director Ousmane Sembène.

Camp de Thiaroye tells the largely untold history of the Thiaroye Massacre. In 1944 the French army murdered of hundreds of Senegalese soldiers who were protesting their pay after they were drafted by France to fight the Nazis. Instead of being met with gratitude following their sacrifices during the war, the soldiers instead endured harassment, poor rations, and saw only a portion of the pay they were promised leading to an explosive act of resistance that ended in tragedy. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 1988 Venice Film Festival. (154 mins., 4K DCP)

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Camp de Thiaroye, courtesy of Cineteca di Bologna.

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Restored by The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project and Cineteca di Bologna at L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory in association with the Tunisian Ministry of Cultural Affairs and the Senegalese Ministry of Culture and Historical Heritage. Special thanks to Mohamed Challouf. Restoration funded by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation. This restoration is part of the African Film Heritage Project, an initiative created by The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project, the Pan African Federation of Filmmakers and UNESCO—in collaboration with Cineteca di Bologna—to help locate, restore, and disseminate African cinema.

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