He was nicknamed the “African Godard” and his films have inspired several generations of filmmakers from the African continent. Born in 1945 in Colobane, died in Paris in 1998, the Senegalese Djibril Diop Mambéty is the author of a dazzling, baroque and unfinished work. He disappears before he can film the end of his triptych, Stories of little people, the first two parts of which are released this Wednesday in theaters in a restored version.