In a world where everything is forbidden except what is obligatory, a man recalls for what reasons he came to work in a very strange fast food restaurant. Sadness of the Anthropophagi is a surreal political and social farce by French filmmaker Jean-Denis Bonan. The short film was censored in France in 1967. In May 1968, it was screened clandestinely in Paris, at the Les 3 Luxembourg cinema which was occupied by student protesters.

Bonan is a little-known filmmaker, even though he is the founder of Cinélutte, a collective of militant filmmakers that was important in the rise of the auteur documentary in France of the 1980s. Before that, he also co-founded the Atelier de Recherche Cinématographique (ARC), to whom we owe most of the footage shot during the May ‘68 events in Paris.