Ousmane Sembène

Discover the true story of the father of African cinema, who battled for 50 years against great odds to reclaim African stories for Africans.

Banned in Senegal upon its release, Ousmane Sembène’s ambitious precolonial epic explores the combustible tensions among ancient tradition, religious colonization, political expediency, and individual freedom as it chronicles the division and eventual war between the animistic Ceddo and the fundamentalist Muslims.