Capital Celluloid 2026 — Day 244: Wed Sep 2

Sambizanga (Maldoror, 1972): BFI Southbank, NFT3, 8.40pm This film, which also screens on September 19th , is part of the Sarah Maldoror season at BFI Southbank. You can find all the details here . Sight & Sound review: This is the first feature in Africa to be directed by a woman. Set in 1961, at the start of the Angolan War of Independence, and shot in Congo, the film tracks the resistance…