Aimé Césaire

Lumières Noires (2007)

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DIRECTION:  Bob Swaim
CAST:  Aimé Césaire  •  Edouard Glissant  •  René Depestre

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DIRECTION:  Bob Swaim
CAST:  Aimé Césaire  •  Edouard Glissant  •  René Depestre

A State of Blackness: Aimé Césaire’s Way (1991)

Documentary exploring the thought and work of Aimé Césaire.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jean-Daniel Lafond
CAST:  Aimé Césaire  •  Paul Chamberland  •  Lobo Dyabavadra  •  Joby Bernabé

Documentary exploring the thought and work of Aimé Césaire.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jean-Daniel Lafond
CAST:  Aimé Césaire  •  Paul Chamberland  •  Lobo Dyabavadra  •  Joby Bernabé

Léon G. Damas (1995)

Léon G. Damas (1912–1978) was the first poet to “live Négritude”, according to the Senegalese poet, politician and cultural theorist Léopold Sédar Senghor. Cosmopolitan and always in transit, his writing is a chorus of melodies and imagery imbued with angst and ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Sarah Maldoror
CAST:  Léopold Sédar Senghor  •  Aimé Césaire  •  Georges Othily  •  Idriss Makward

Léon G. Damas (1912–1978) was the first poet to “live Négritude”, according to the Senegalese poet, politician and cultural theorist Léopold Sédar Senghor. Cosmopolitan and always in transit, his writing is a chorus of melodies and imagery imbued with angst and ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Sarah Maldoror
CAST:  Léopold Sédar Senghor  •  Aimé Césaire  •  Georges Othily  •  Idriss Makward

Aimé Césaire, Une voix pour l'histoire (1995)

A three-part study that introduces audiences to the celebrated Martinican author Aimé Césaire, who coined the term "négritude" and launched the movement called the "Great Black Cry".  (more)

DIRECTION:  Euzhan Palcy
CAST:  Aimé Césaire  •  Jorge Amado  •  Edgar Morin  •  Joseph Zobel

A three-part study that introduces audiences to the celebrated Martinican author Aimé Césaire, who coined the term "négritude" and launched the movement called the "Great Black Cry".  (more)

DIRECTION:  Euzhan Palcy
CAST:  Aimé Césaire  •  Jorge Amado  •  Edgar Morin  •  Joseph Zobel

Twinkl (2008)

Martinique Island, 1974. Inspired by the writings of the Martiniquais poet and politician Aimé Césaire (1913-2008), the dreamer Robert Saint-Rose, known as Zétwall (Star in Creole), aspires to be the first Frenchman to step on the lunar surface.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Gilles Elie-Dit-Cosaque
CAST:  Hugues Saint-Rose  •  Marcel Celat  •  J. C. William  •  Olivier Julysson

Martinique Island, 1974. Inspired by the writings of the Martiniquais poet and politician Aimé Césaire (1913-2008), the dreamer Robert Saint-Rose, known as Zétwall (Star in Creole), aspires to be the first Frenchman to step on the lunar surface.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Gilles Elie-Dit-Cosaque
CAST:  Hugues Saint-Rose  •  Marcel Celat  •  J. C. William  •  Olivier Julysson

Aimé Césaire, Un homme une terre (1976)

A film by Sarah Maldoror  (more)

DIRECTION:  Sarah Maldoror
CAST:  Aimé Césaire  •  Sarah Maldoror

A film by Sarah Maldoror  (more)

DIRECTION:  Sarah Maldoror
CAST:  Aimé Césaire  •  Sarah Maldoror

Contre-histoire de la France d'outre-mer (2013)

In five parts, this documentary tells the story of the colonisation of the French Overseas Territories. Slave descendants, coloniser descendants, historians, admirals, rebellious writers and politicians recount a lasting past that keeps on igniting the economic and ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Xavier-Marie Bonnot  •  Dorothée Lachaud
CAST:  Prosper Ève  •  Serge Letchimy  •  Gérard Le Bouëdec  •  Brigitte Nicolas

In five parts, this documentary tells the story of the colonisation of the French Overseas Territories. Slave descendants, coloniser descendants, historians, admirals, rebellious writers and politicians recount a lasting past that keeps on igniting the economic and ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Xavier-Marie Bonnot  •  Dorothée Lachaud
CAST:  Prosper Ève  •  Serge Letchimy  •  Gérard Le Bouëdec  •  Brigitte Nicolas

Aimé Césaire: The Mask of Words (1987)

Aimé Césaire - Le Masque des mots is a portrait of the Martinican writer who calls himself a rebellious negro and for whom the poetic act represents an act of freedom.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Sarah Maldoror
CAST:  Aimé Césaire  •  Léopold Sédar Senghor  •  Maya Angelou  •  Alex Haley

Aimé Césaire - Le Masque des mots is a portrait of the Martinican writer who calls himself a rebellious negro and for whom the poetic act represents an act of freedom.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Sarah Maldoror
CAST:  Aimé Césaire  •  Léopold Sédar Senghor  •  Maya Angelou  •  Alex Haley

Aimé Césaire at the End of Daybreak (1977)

Documentary on the négritude movement through one of its founders, Aimé Césaire.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Sarah Maldoror
CAST:  Aimé Césaire

Documentary on the négritude movement through one of its founders, Aimé Césaire.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Sarah Maldoror
CAST:  Aimé Césaire

Eia pour Césaire (2009)

Shortly after his death in 2008, Maldoror made this film about her longtime friend and collaborator, the Négritude poet Aimé Césaire. In this film, she retraces the steps of Césaire’s travels across the globe — particularly back to his hometown in Martinique, where ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Sarah Maldoror
CAST:  Aimé Césaire

Shortly after his death in 2008, Maldoror made this film about her longtime friend and collaborator, the Négritude poet Aimé Césaire. In this film, she retraces the steps of Césaire’s travels across the globe — particularly back to his hometown in Martinique, where ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Sarah Maldoror
CAST:  Aimé Césaire

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DIRECTION:  Alexandre Hilaire
CAST:  Jean-Marie Serreau  •  Edgar Morin  •  Coline Serreau  •  Aimé Césaire

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DIRECTION:  Laurent Hasse  •  Laurent Chevallier
CAST:  Aimé Césaire