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The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun

1999 · 45 min
Directed by Djibril Diop Mambéty
DramaFamily

Cast

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Plot

Sili, a young girl with a disability, takes to the streets of Dakar to sell newspapers, and proves her worth in a male world.

Sinekatalog’s take

Djibril Diop Mambéty's Senegalese short feature, La petite vendeuse de Soleil, is bright, warm and moving, his last film.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.

Ratings

IMDb: 7.3 / 10 (1,056 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.