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The Little Girl Who Sold The Sun

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A girl (Lissa Balera) gets a job selling a government newspaper and battles bullies who want her to quit.

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Richard Brody The New Yorker 03/02/2020
Mambety's richly textured view of urban life fuses fiction and documentary, displaying the rampant poverty and endemic misogyny in the modernizing capital. Go to Full Review James Hanton Outtake Mag 07/28/2020
4 / 5
Mambéty's final film is brimming with colour and optimism, carried through by a central character blessed with ferocious resilience and executed with a glorious eye for detail. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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12/09/2009 WEB. Encantadora en su simpleza y con una memorable protagonista, aunque no tiene toda la resonancia dramática que quizá aspira a lograr. / Enchanting in its simplicity and with a memorable protagonist, but doesn't have all the dramatic resonance it probably aspires to have. See more 12/19/2008 Touching beyond belief. See more Read all reviews
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Cast & Crew

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Djibril Diop Mambéty

Director

Lissa Balera

Sili

Djibril Diop Mambéty

Writer

Wasis Diop

Original Music

Jacques Besse

Cinematographer

Sarah Taouss-Matton

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Movie Info

Synopsis A girl (Lissa Balera) gets a job selling a government newspaper and battles bullies who want her to quit.
Director
Djibril Diop Mambéty
Screenwriter
Djibril Diop Mambéty
Distributor
California Newsreel
Production Co
Maag Daan, Waka Films
Genre
Drama
Original Language
Canadian French
Release Date (Theaters)
Feb 1, 1999, Original
Runtime
44m