The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun + The Unseen
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The Little Girl Who Sold The Sun
Sili, a crippled Senegalese girl, decides to do a boy’s job, selling newspapers on the streets of Dakar. She’s great at it, but the boys aren’t happy. Sili doesn’t care, and dances in a dress the colour of sunflowers. Djibril Diop Mambéty’s little film is a big-hearted odyssey about daring to imagine what you can be, and to hell with what anyone thinks.
The Unseen
Dir. Miroslav Janek /
1997 / Czech
Republic / 53mins / Cert. TBC / Subtitled
At a blind school in the Czech Republic, the children exuberantly show off their remarkable talents – as musicians, as radio announcers, as daredevil bike riders and, most extraordinarily of all, as photographers. Why take pictures of a world you can’t see? To capture memories, of course, that sighted people can describe back to them. A true eye-opener about the resilience, adaptability and creativity of children, faced with whatever challenge the world throws at them.
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- Director
- Djibril Diop Mambéty
- Country
- France, Germany, Senegal, Switzerland
- Year
- 1999
- Duration
- 100 mins
- Language
- French with English subtitles
- Cast
- Aminata Fall, Lissa Balera, Tayerou M'Baye
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