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Sambizanga

Domingos is a member of an African liberation movement, arrested by the Portuguese secret police, after the Feb 4 barracks attack in Angola, 1961. His wife goes from a prison station to another, trying in vain to find out where he is.

directed by Sarah Maldoror and written by Maldoror, Mário Pinto de Andrade, and Maurice Pons, based on the 1961 novella The Real Life of Domingos Xavier by working class sympathetic settler José Luandino Vieira.

Sambizanga was the first feature film produced in Angola and by any Lusophone African country. Maldoror was the first woman to make a feature film in Africa.[1]

This hits a lot of firsts, but for me, mainly, I’m surprised we didn’t show an Angolan film here

Les Orphelins De Sankara

Thomas Sankara came to power in Burkina Faso in 1983, with the promise of a revolutionary government that would transform the West African country. To help build the revolution, he sent 600 children — many orphans from rural areas — to be educated in Cuba. But after Sankara’s assassination, the children were stranded. The last would only return to Burkina Faso in 2005. SANKARA’S ORPHANS tells their stories through interviews with some of the 600, along with archival footage of their lives on Cuba’s Isle of Youth — where both Sankara and Fidel Castro came to visit. Along with their education, the children worked in the fields and received weapons training. This, combined with their idealism, frightened the new Burkina Faso regime, which worried they might return and take up arms

We’ll start at 4:30 PM EST on Blorptube, right here:
https://blorp.bot.nu/o/visual_cuisine
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Letterboxd:

https://letterboxd.com/film/sambizanga/
https://letterboxd.com/film/sankaras-orphans/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/265848

CWs for the films (excluding spoilers?)

https://www.unconsentingmedia.org/
https://www.imdb.com/

Sambizanga:

Les Orphelins De Sankara

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Sources for movies:

Sambizanga: https://tankie.tube/w/jnfYP8oCjW91k53xpY4aYL
Sankara’s Orphans: https://tankie.tube/w/ixBa3q7FaAwKGesfcm2yRV