Marseille après la guerre

The film uses a collection of postWorld War II black white photographs to portray the dockworkers of Marseilles many of whom were of African descent Set in and around a 1947 strike protesting weapons shipments to the French in Indochina the images evoke the life and work of Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembène a former dockworker and one of the founding figures of the New African Cinema of the 1960s