Title from title frame.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1966.
Based on the short story by Ousmane Sembène.
1.37:1 aspect ratio.
Special features: new 4k digital restoration, undertaken by The Film Foundation's World Cinema Project in collaboration with the Cineteca di Bologna; new interview with actor M'Bissine Thérèse Diop; On Black girl: a new interview with filmmaker and cutural theorist Manthia Diawara; alternate color sequence; excerpt from a 1966 broadcast of JT de 20h, featuring Sembène discussing his win of the Prix Jean Vigo for Black Girl; trailer; New English subtitle translation; 4K restoration of the short film Borrom sarret, director Ousmane Sembène's acclaimed 1963 debut; Sembène: the making of African cinema, a 1994 documentary about the filmmaker by Manthia Diawara and Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo; On Ousmane Sembène: a new interview with scholar Samba Godjigo ; in folded insert: essay by critic Ashley Clark.
Producer, André Zwoboda ; director of photography, Christian Lacoste; editor, André Gaudier.
In French and Wolof with optional subtitles in English.
Best African Feature, Festival of Black Arts 1966 ; Grand Prize, Carthage Film Festival 1966