The Cemetery of Cinema

Country: France, Senegal, Guinea, Saudi Arabia

Year: 2023

Runtime: 93

Villa Albertine, Alliance Française Miami Metro, and Miami Film Festival present: The Cemetery of Cinema with director Thierno Souleymane Diallo in attendance.

In 1953, Mamadou Touré directed the film Mouramani, a film considered as the first ever made by a black French-speaking director. However, the mystery remains. No one knows where to find a print, neither if one even exists. The Cemetery of Cinema is the search for that film, also an ode to cinema, both the kind we watch and the kind we make. A road-movie from east to west, north to south, a film full of love, humor and tenderness towards his peers and the new generation to come but also a quest as Souleymane marches with a sign demanding Mouramani’s return…

Host or Publisher Miami Dade College's Miami Film Festival