Directed by Med Hondo

Among the politically committed African filmmakers who emerged in the postcolonial era, Mauritanian-French firebrand Med Hondo stood as one of the boldest and most provocative voices, forging a fiercely experimental style all his own to examine the historical toll of colonial oppression on generations of African people. Employing radical agit-prop, freewheeling avant-garde experimentation, and incisive satire, his films—including the explosive portrait of immigrant alienation SOLEIL Ô, the innovative musical WEST INDIES: THE FUGITIVE SLAVES OF LIBERTY, and the feminist historical epic SARRAOUNIA—point the way toward a truly decolonized cinema of liberation.