Film screening and seminar: coordinated by Aya Distribution, support of the BFI and awarding funds from The National Lottery.

In 1952, Ousmane Sembène, a dockworker and school dropout from Senegal, began dreaming an impossible dream: to become the storyteller for a new Africa. This feature-length documentary tells the unbelievable true story of the “father of African cinema”, the self-taught novelist and filmmaker who fought, against enormous odds, a monumental, 50-year-long battle to give African stories to Africans.

Seminar panellists include Samba Gadijgo (co-writer, co-director and co-producer), Ohn Akomfra (artist, writer, film director, screenwriter, theorist and curator) and June Givanni (curator, African and African diaspora cinema).

Tickets: £8.40 with concessions available. Booking is essential: book online or call 0115 952 6611.

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