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A wife and mother tirelessly works for the release of her jailed activist husband in Sarah Maldoror's powerful Sambizanga.
Set in 1961 before the Angolan War of Independence from Portugal, Sambizanga is the story of a jailed activist's wife (played by Cape Verdean economist Elisa Andrade). With her young son in tow, she walks from prison to prison searching for news about her imprisoned spouse only to be stonewalled by a series of colonial officials. French director Maldoror (who passed away in 2020 at the age of 90 from COVID) worked as an assistant on Gillo Pontecorvo’s landmark The Battle of Algiers (1966) and, with Sambizanga, became one of the first women to direct a feature film in Africa. (102 mins., 4K DCP)
Sambizanga | Image courtesy of Cineteca di Bologna
Restored by The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project and Cineteca di Bologna at L’Image Retrouvée in association with Éditions René Chateau and the family of Sarah Maldoror. Funding provided by 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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Sambizanga
