Portrait of an African Woman
1985, French. Directed by Sarah Maldoror.
In this segment on immigrant cultures for the television program Mosaïque, a young Senegalese woman who cooks in a workers’ hostel dreams of traveling throughout France and getting to know her adopted country, taking issue with the cliché of the impoverished and helpless immigrant.
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- 0h 6m
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- French
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- 1 January 1985
- Original title
- Portrait d'une femme africaine
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Portrait of an African Woman isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 1 January 1985. (Checked 14 November 2026.)
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Who directed Portrait of an African Woman?
Portrait of an African Woman (1985) was directed by Sarah Maldoror.