The Cemetery of Cinema

In 1953, Mamadou Touré directed Mouramani, a film considered as the first ever made by a black French-speaking director. However, the mystery remains. No one knows where to find a print, neither if one even exists. Au cimetière de la pellicule is the search for that film, and an ode to cinema, both the kind we watch and the kind we make. A road movie from east to west, north to south, a film full of love, humour and tenderness towards his peers and the new generation to come, but also a quest as Souleymane marches with a sign demanding the return of Mouramani. A filmmaking act in itself.