Directed by Ousmane Sembène • 1964 • Senegal
Starring Sow, Astou Ndiaye, Mame Dia

In this early short film, adapted from his own novella “White Genesis,” Ousmane Sembène offers a portrait of a Senegalese village in decline, where the chief has impregnated his own daughter, a soldier has come back from war insane, and the local griot bemoans the community’s loss of morals.