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La Petite Vendeuse de Soleil (or The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun) is a 1999 Senegalese drama film, directed by Djibril Diop Mambéty which premiered after his death in 1998. La Petite Vendeuse de Soleil is a film exalting the lives and promise found among ordinary Senegalese.
Oct 6, 1999 · The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun: Directed by Djibril Diop Mambéty. With Moussa Baldé, Lissa Balera, Aminata Fall, Dieynaba Laam. A girl sells copies of Soleil, the government paper.
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- Drama, Family
- Djibril Diop Mambéty
- 1999-10-06
Oct 13, 2021 · Directed by Djibril Diop Mambéty. Senegal, France, 1999. Short, Drama. 43 min. Synopsis. A young, illiterate, disabled girl named Sili from a shantytown on the outskirts of Dakar decides one day to abandon her blind grandmother’s vocation of begging in the street and take up the physically demanding job of selling newspapers. Addeddate.
Aug 12, 2022 · A film by Djibril Diop Mambéty about a young girl who sells newspapers in Senegal. It is a hymn to the courage of street children and post-colonial Africa.
Aug 21, 2020 · The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun. An extraordinary twelve-year-old actor, Lissa Baléra, stars in the Senegalese director Djibril Diop Mambety’s final film, from 1999.
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The third element of a trilogy of the story of ordinary people that started with Le franc, the film is about a young disabled girl, Sisi (Lissa Baléra) who begs and is jostled about by...
Sili is crippled but nonetheless is a determined little girl. She gets a job selling a newspaper on the streets of Dakar, and despite intimidation from some bullying older boys, she earns money for her family and entertains the other street kids.
