Three Revolutionary Films by Ousmane Sembne (Blu-ray)

Having blazed a trail for African filmmakers to tell their own stories on-screen, Senegalese auteur Ousmane Sembne took his career-long projectto unlock cinemas potential as a vehicle for social changein increasingly urgent and provocative directions in the 1970s. Searing critiques of colonialism, political corruption, patriarchal arrogance, and religious indoctrination, his three features from this decadethe radical call to resistance Emita, the wickedly subversive satire Xala, and the controversial historical epic Ceddoconfirmed his standing as a fearless truth-teller for whom the camera was the ultimate weapon in the fight against oppression in all its forms.THREE-BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES New 4K digital restorations of all three films, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks New conversation between Mahen Bonetti, founder and executive director of the African Film Festival, and film writer Amy Sall The Making of Ceddo, a 1981 documentary by Paulin Soumanou Vieyra New English