Marseille après la guerre

(2023)

Genres: Documentary

Year: 2023

Runtime: 11 мин

Country: United States of America, Portugal

Director: Billy Woodberry

Cast: Billy Woodberry, Ousmane Sembène

Plot

The film uses a collection of post-World War II black & white photographs to portray the dockworkers of Marseilles, many of whom were of African descent. Set in and around a 1947 strike protesting weapons shipments to the French in Indochina, the images evoke the life and work of Senegalese filmmaker, Ousmane Sembène, a former dockworker, and one of the founding figures of the New African Cinema of the 1960s.