Aimé Césaire - un homme une terre (1976)

Portrait of Aimé Césaire, poet, humanist and cantor of negritude, rooted in his native land of Martinique. But also and above all, the author, in 1950, of the most violent manifesto of the time against the ravages of colonization and the negation of the other, Le Discours sur le colonialisme, perhaps more topical today than never. Césaire talks about his island, his relationship to poetry (Cahier d'un retour au pays natal). He speaks of the need to awaken an authentic Martinican popular culture, and to lay the foundations of freedom. The reception of Léopold Senghor on the island by Césaire is an opportunity for the two men to discuss negritude; Between excerpts from The Tragedy of King Christophe, Césaire expresses the founding dramas of Haitian independence, the first black state of modern times. The visit to a construction site of the municipal workshops finally shows the local politician, who also denounces the durability of the colonial status of the island. Sarah Maldoror, filmmaker from Guadeloupe, has been linked to the "Présence Africaine" editions from the outset. Since her admirable Sambizanga (1972) filmed during the liberation struggle in Angola, she has never ceased to give an account of her hopes for a better world, and more particularly in the black world.