Live stream preview

Watch this video and more on The Criterion Channel

Watch this video and more on The Criterion Channel

Start your free trial

Already subscribed? Sign in

Africa on the Seine

Leaving June 30 • 22m

Directed by Paulin Soumanou Vieyra and Mamadou Sarr • 1955 • Senegal
Starring Paulin Vieyra, Mamadou Sarr

In this short documentary, Paulin Vieyra and his collaborator Mamadou Sarr explore the lives of Africans living in Paris, poetically evoking the ambiguities and questions about identity that plague students educated in colonialist spaces. In voice-over, the film wonders: is Africa only in Africa, or also on the banks of the Seine?

Up Next in Leaving June 30

  • Bye Bye Braverman
    1:34:27
    Bye Bye Braverman

    Bye Bye Braverman

    Directed by Sidney Lumet • 1968 • United States
    Starring George Segal, Jack Warden, Joseph Wiseman

    Director Sidney Lumet made his first foray into comedy with this wildly irreverent farce, rich in 1960s New York City flavor and Borscht Belt humor. When their buddy, the writer Leslie Braverman (“...

  • Iba N’Diaye
    35:29
    Iba N’Diaye

    Iba N’Diaye

    Directed by Paulin Soumanou Vieyra • 1982 • Senegal
    Starring Iba N’Diaye

    During an interview with the filmmaker Paulin Vieyra, the celebrated painter Iba N’Diaye recalls key moments from his life. He begins with his childhood in Senegal and his studies at the Lycée Faidherbe in St. Louis of Sene...

  • Paper Moon
    1:42:39
    Paper Moon

    Paper Moon

    Directed by Peter Bogdanovich • 1973 • United States
    Starring Ryan O'Neal, Tatum O'Neal, Madeline Kahn

    Peter Bogdanovich revisits the lyrical strain of bittersweet nostalgia he tapped into in THE LAST PICTURE SHOW in this 1930s-set comedy about the unlikely partnership that develops between a sm...

×