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Before opening the Africa Film Festival in Ghent (2025) with his new film Demba, we are glad to welcome Mamadou Dia for the screening of his renowned short film Samedi Cinema (2016) during the module of Visual Anthropology. This module is part of the Anthropology course within the Department of Educational Sciences and aims to demonstrate how film - and other visual media - can serve as a powerful research tool to gain insights into various aspects of humanity.

Join us on March 25th at 9AM for the screening and discussion of Samedi Cinema, in the presence of the director Mamadou Dia. As a Senegalese director based in New York, he tells nuanced everyday stories in various contexts (cf. Contained, 2014; Nafi's Father, 2019). Besides making films, he transfers his love for and knowledge of the craft to his students at the University of Virginia where he is Assistant Professor of Practice and in Senegal at the Centre Yennnega. Following the screening, engage in a stimulating Q&A session with the director about storytelling techniques and his ethnographical research methods.