Drama, directed by Ousmane Sembene, Senegal, 2001, 121 min,  one of the godfathers of African cinema.

French/Wolof with English subtitles

This screening is presented with kind support of M-Net. 

In Faat Kine, Ousmane Sembene, calls his fellow Africans to a reckoning of the post-independence era at the beginning of a new century. At 77, Sembene honours “everyday heroism of African women” in Faat Kine, with a penetrating analysis of the interplay of gender, economics and power in today's Africa. Sembene accomplishes all this through a deceptively light domestic drama on a gas station operator born, significantly, the same year as Senegalese independence, 1960.