CONTRAS CITY

Credits

Name: CONTRAS CITY

Country: Senegal

Year of publication: 1968

Format: DCP

Language : OmeU

Duration: 22 Minuten

Series: 21. Afrika Film Festival Köln

Direction: Mambéty, Djibril Diop

Abstract

In the form of a mockumentary, CONTRAS' CITY portrays the Senegalese capital, a city of contrasts, through a conversation between a Senegalese man, Mambéty, and a French woman, Inge Hirschnitz.

 

CONTRAS’ CITY: Restored in 2020 by Cineteca di Bologna/L'Immagine Ritrovata and The Film Foundation's World Cinema Project in association with The Criterion Collection. Funding provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation. This restoration is part of the African Film Heritage Project, an initiative created by The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project, the Pan African Federation of Filmmakers and UNESCO – in collaboration with Cineteca di Bologna – to help locate, restore, and disseminate African cinema.