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The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun

‘La petite vendeuse de soleil’

Director: Djibril Diop Mambéty
Year: 1999
Country: Senegal
Type: Feature
Form: Narrative

Sili, a young disabled girl in Dakar, starts selling ‘Le Soleil’ newspaper on the street. The second in Djibril Diop Mambéty’s trilogy intended to celebrate the ‘little people’ in the grips of a global economy, which, in his words, had ‘gone mad’.

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Image description: Sili, a young black disabled girl sits at the bottom of some outdoor steps. She’s wearing a beautiful green and blue dress, has her red crutches resting by her sides, and is holding a pile of Le Soleil newspapers.