Mizna Film Series Screening: Soleil Ô
- 02/24/2021 - 02/28/2021
Event details
The Mizna Film Series is a monthly selection of programs, marking our first venture into year-round curated film programming. This series is presented virtually and in-person in collaboration with Trylon Cinema. Learn more about the Mizna Film Series here.
For our Winter 2021 Season, we are proud to present two recently restored SWANA classics to kick off Mizna’s new monthly film series, starting with Soleil Ô (dir. Med Hondo, 1970), a Mauritanian Third Cinema classic.
We’re thrilled to be partnering with DervishMazza to offer Twin Cities audiences delicious nibbles to pair with virtual screenings. Limited orders of Movie + Mazza will be available. Learn more.
ABOUT SOLEIL Ô
Soleil Ô (1970), a bitterly funny, stylistically explosive attack on Western capitalism and colonialism, follows a starry-eyed immigrant as he leaves West Africa for Paris in search of a job and cultural enrichment. He soon discovers a hostile society in which his very presence elicits fear and resentment. Hondo deploys an array of narrative and stylistic techniques—animation, docudrama, dream sequences, musical numbers, folklore, slapstick comedy, agitprop—to create a landmark of political cinema.