Guelwaar

Even during his lifetime, a Catholic priest called Guelwaar (‘the Noble’) caused unrest among the powerful with his criticism of the system. After his mysterious death, his body is - officially by mistake - buried in a Muslim cemetery. A momentous mix-up ... Sembène once again thematises the contradictions of post-colonial (co-)existence as a sharp-eyed parable for the conflict between self-determination and heteronomy. (Florian Widegger)