Outsider Cinema

The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun

A film by Djibril Diop Mambéty

  • 1999
  • 45 min (approx.)
Still from The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun to come.

Sili, a girl on crutches who begs on the streets of Dakar, gets knocked down by the newspaper boys and decides to sell the daily paper Le Soleil herself. Mambéty died during the edit, and it premiered at Rotterdam in February 1999, dedicated to the courage of street children.

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Where to find it

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