A French filmmaker of Guadeloupian descent, Sarah Maldoror attended film school in Moscow with Ousmane Sembène, and then went on to work on The Battle of Algiers. Her first short film, shot in Algeria, was set during the Angolan resistance. Carnival in Guinea-Bissau features the vibrant carnival as well as interviews with Luís Cabral, who became that country's first president. Maldoror's first feature, Guns for Banta was commissioned by the Algerian government to chronicle the Guinean and Cape Verdean fights for independence, but was never completed. In his fascinating essay film, Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc excavates the history of this lost film, drawing on photographs, documents, and conversations with Maldoror and her former partner, Mario de Andrade.