A young Senegalese woman who failed to find freedom when she left home for France is the main character in Ousmane Sembene’s film Black Girl, which will be shown at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 2, in room 314 of Morey Hall on the University of Rochester’s River Campus. It is free and open to the public.

The first film director from an African country to achieve international acclaim, Sembene also wrote the screenplay for the 65-minute, black-and-white movie released in 1966. In French with English subtitles, Black Girl (Le Noire de . . .) is part of the Africa Video and Film Series sponsored by the Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African-American Studies at the University of Rochester on this semester’s theme of the Diaspora in Exile.

For more information, contact the Frederick Douglass Institute at (585) 275-7235.