Born in Martinique, Euzhan Palcy has been widely acclaimed as one of the most significant filmmakers of her generation. She was the first black filmmaker to be awarded a Cesar (French Academy Award), for her first feature Sugar Cane Alley, and was the first black female director to make a feature for a major Hollywood studio, A Dry White Season for MGM.
We are pleased to screen these two films – a small retrospective as part of HOME’s on-going celebration of women in global cinema and as part of Black History Month.
In partnership with Barbican Centre.
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Cinema
A Dry White Season
Euzhan Palcy became the first black woman to direct a Hollywood studio film for this potent drama set at the height of the anti-Apartheid movement.
Cinema
Sugar Cane Alley
Euzhan Palcy’s first feature is one of cinema’s great coming-of-age tales. It follows José, an orphan living with his grandmother determined to better the life…