Mali's first feature-length fiction film in the Bambara language, Souleymane Cisse's Den Muso follows a mute young woman who is raped, becomes pregnant, and is rejected by both families, and was banned by Malian authorities immediately on release, with Cisse jailed for accepting French production funding.
Fun fact: The film was restored in 2020 by the Cinematheque francaise in collaboration with Cisse himself, decades after its original ban.