CAMP DE THIAROYE
Special Features: New 4K Restoration
Based on an actual historical incident, this “magisterial critique of the colonial mentality” (in the words of film critic J. Hoberman) received a Special Jury Prize from the Venice Film Festival. In 1944, African infantrymen, back from slugging it out with the Nazis and liberating Paris, relax in a transit camp in Senegal, but they soon realize “transit camp” means “prison” and “war heroes” means “uppity natives.” DIR/SCR Ousmane Sembène, Thierno Faty Sow; PROD Mustafa Ben Jemja, Ouzid Dahmane, Mamadou Mbengue. Senegal, 1988, color, 157 min. In French and Wolof with English subtitles. NOT RATED
Restored by The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project and Cineteca di Bologna at L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory in association with the Tunisian Ministry of Culture and the Senegalese Ministry of Culture and Historical Heritage. Special thanks to Mohammed Challouf. Restoration funded 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.
Run Time: 157 Minutes
Opening Date: Friday, May 23, 2025
Genre: War drama
