Join Garden Cinema for Sarah Maldoror in Focus: Sambizanga. Sarah Maldoror (1929-2020) has been hailed as one of the great directors of anti-colonial cinema. Sambizanga is a revolutionary film chronicling the awakening of Angola’s independence movement. Based on a true story, Sambizanga follows a young woman as she makes her way from the outskirts of Luanda toward the city’s centre looking for her husband after his arrest by the Portuguese authorities.