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Au cimetière de la pellicule (2023)

93 min · Documentation

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Thierno Souleymane Diallo

A filmmaker journeys across Guinea and to France in search of a lost film that may illuminate his country’s cinematic past.

The story

A filmmaker journeys across Guinea and to France in search of a lost film that may illuminate his country’s cinematic past.

Full plot (contains spoilers)

Thierno travels across Guinea in search of *Mouramani*, the first film made in Paris in 1953 by a Black man from French-speaking Africa. On this quest, he discovers what cinema once was in his country and what it has become. Bringing his camera face to face with History, he searches as far as France for a copy of this lost film.

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Documentation

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