Aimé Césaire

Aimé Césaire: une voix pour l'histoire

Euzhan Palcy

Aimé Césaire, Jorge Amado

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".

Léon G. Damas

Sarah Maldoror

Léopold Sédar Senghor, Aimé Césaire

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 melancholy and strongly influenced by jazz and blues. Punctuated by images of the landscapes of French Guiana and the voice of the artist, the film exemplifies the poetic documentary form to which Maldoror frequently returned.

Aimé Césaire, le masque des mots

Sarah Maldoror

Aimé Césaire, Léopold Sédar Senghor

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.

Aimé Césaire au bout du petit matin

Sarah Maldoror

Aimé Césaire

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

Zétwal

Gilles Elie-Dit-Cosaque

Hugues Saint-Rose, Marcel Celat

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.

Aimé Césaire - un homme une terre

Sarah Maldoror

Aimé Césaire, Sarah Maldoror

A film by Sarah Maldoror

Contre-histoire de la France d'outre-mer

Xavier-Marie Bonnot, Dorothée Lachaud

Prosper Ève, Serge Letchimy

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 social relations of these territories even to this day.

Lumières noires

Bob Swaim

Aimé Césaire, Edouard Glissant

La Manière Nègre ou Aimé Césaire, Chemin Faisant

Jean-Daniel Lafond

Aimé Césaire, Paul Chamberland

Documentary exploring the thought and work of Aimé Césaire.

Eia pour Césaire

Sarah Maldoror

Aimé Césaire, Maya Angelou

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 Maldoror interviews his relatives about his life — and her working relationship with Césaire, including fragments of her previous films about him, Un homme, une terre (1976) and Le masque des mots (1987).