SARRAOUNIA (Church of Film)

At the end of the 19th century, Queen of the Azna people, the warrior and sorceress Sarraounia earns the devotion of her people, and gathers allies to battle the oncoming scourge of the brutal French colonial army.

Based on the true story of Sarraounia Mangou, constructed from oral histories, and largely self-financed and shot in Burkina-Faso, with SARRAOUNIA Med Hondo made an anti-colonial, African epic on a size and scale that rivaled any major studio work. (CW: violence, sexual violence)