Les Sœurs Nardal, les oubliées de la Négritude (The Nardal Sisters, the Forgotten Ones of Négritude)
Dir.: Léa Mormin-Chauvac and Marie-Christine Gambart, 2022, France, 52', in English

When it comes to Négritude, its founding fathers are well known: Aimé Césaire, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Léon Damas. But would this movement have existed without the Nardal sisters? These men rarely mentioned the influence of the sisters, Paulette, Jane, and Andrée Nardal, yet they were central figures in the Black intelligentsia in Paris during the 1920s and theorized Black consciousness and its awakening. In the film, Les Sœurs Nardal, les oubliées de la Négritude (2022), Léa Mormin-Chauvac and Marie-Christine Gambart highlight their pioneering role in laying the foundations for Black consciousness and the Négritude movement. From Fort-de-France to Paris, via England and the US—where Paulette served as a delegate to the UN—Mormin-Chauvac traces their lives in the film and in her book, Les sœurs Nardal: À l'avant-garde de la cause noire (The Nardal Sisters: At the Vanguard of the Black Cause), published in 2024. The two works contribute to the effort to recognize the feminist and anti-racist work the sisters put forth in their lifetimes.