CONTRAS CITY
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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.
CONTRAS CITY Direction: Djibril Diop Mambéty, DCP, OmeU, 22 min