The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire
An actress three months postpartum attempts to find meaning in the writings of Martinique’s lost literary figure Suzanne Césaire.
Thank you to our screening partners: Black Girls In Art Spaces and The Colored Girls Museum
Directors Spotlight
Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich
Director
Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich is a filmmaker and artist who makes films concerned with the inner worlds of black women. Her work has been screened all over the world including at the 2023 Berlinale, the 2022 La Biennale di Venezia, the Guggenheim Museum, the Tate Modern and the Whitney Museum of Art. Her films have been awarded special jury prize for best experimental film at Blackstar Film Festival and New Orleans Film Festival. She was named on Filmmaker Magazine’s 2020 “25 New Faces of Independent Cinema List” and is the recipient of a 2023 Herb Alpert Award in Film, a 2022 Creative Capital Award, a 2019 Rema Hort Mann Award, and a 2014 Princess Grace Award in film.
- Runtime
- 75 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English, French
- Director
- Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich
- Cast
- Zita Hanrot, Motell Foster, Josué Gutierrez
- Cinematographer
- Alex Ashe
- Composer
- Sabine McCalla
- Editor
- Emily Packer
- Music
- Cheryl Wang
- Producer
- Sophie Luo, Mike S. Ryan
- Production Design
- Terry Watson
- Screenwriter
- Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich
- Sound Design
- Andrew Tracy
- Premiere
- North America