Diretores / 49ª mostra

The Martinican filmmaker Euzhan Palcy is a pivotal and pioneering figure in cinema history, notably for forging paths for Black women in previously inaccessible spaces. Her career began early in Martinique with a television medium-length film about life on banana plantations, followed by the short "L’atelier du Diable" (The Devil's Workshop) in 1982. She burst onto the world stage in 1983 with her feature film "Sugar Cane Alley", which earned her the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival—a landmark achievement as the first time the award was given to a female director and to a black director. . The film's success led her to Hollywood, where she directed the political thriller "A Dry White Season" (1989)—the first studio thriller directed by a Black woman—which helped pressure for the end of Apartheid. Palcy later made the musical "Siméon" (1992) and reaffirmed her political commitment in the documentaries "Aimé Césaire, Une Voix pour L’histoire" (Aimé Césaire, A Voice for History) (1995) and "Parcours de Dissidents" (The Journey of the Dissidents) (2006). In 2023, she was honored with an Honorary Oscar. At the 49th, Palcy receives the Humanity Award.