Where do French haute cuisine and the Parisian garbage collectors cross paths? In Sarah Maldoror’s heartwarming and sarcastic feature film Un dessert pour Constance. While on the job, two Senegalese street sweepers, Mamadou and Bokolo, fish an antique cookbook containing the finest 19th-century French recipes out of a trash bin. The book becomes their hobby reading—until they suddenly glimpse an opportunity: to buy their sick friend a plane ticket to Senegal, they enter a culinary TV quiz show. Will they win?

UN DESSERT POUR CONSTANCE
Director: Sarah Maldoror
France 1981 | Feature film | 61′ | OmeU

Sarah Maldoror was the first Black female director to shoot feature films on the African continent, mostly on the themes of national independence and international resistance. Un dessert pour Constance is not only a compelling portrait of solidarity among Black workers in France, but also a passionate plea for the art of consummate craftsmanship: whether in the cook’s refined palate or the street sweeper’s perfected swing of the broom!

Free admission.

The film is being presented as part of the exhibition Waste. An exhibition about the global paths of rubbish, which also explores global recycling cycles.

The event is part of the Art on the MOve film series, an initiative of Museum Ostwall and Internationales Frauen Film Fest Dortmund+Köln.

In cooperation with the German Cookbook Museum and EDG.