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Article: Guelwaar.
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- Cineaste
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- March 22, 1993
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Produced by Ousmane Sembene and Jacques Perrin; written and directed by Ousmane Sembene; cinematography by Dominique Gentil; edited by Marie-Aimee Debril; art direction by Francois Laurent Sylva and Moustapha Ndiaye; music by Baaba Maal; starring Omar Seck, Mame Ndoumbe Diop, Thierno Ndiaye, Ndiawar Diop and Moustapha Diop. Color, 115 minutes. A New Yorker Films release.
At a time when Western media frequently display starving, helpless Third World people 'saved' by benevolent foreign aid, Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembene sends out a bold and disquieting message: Foreign aid perverts rather than nurtures. Food and other relief items may not reach their intended ...