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The Window’s Muse
The Window’s Muse
Very new to the neighborhood, I am intrigued by the calm that reigns there. I never see my neighbours. Except for this young girl who lives across the street from me. A young girl I ...
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Sembene!
Sembene!
Meet Ousmane Sembene, the African freedom fighter who used stories as his weapon.
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Faat Kiné
Faat Kiné
A forty-year-old woman refuses to give into the stigma of unwed motherhood and climbs the ladder of success in a male dominated field.
Nafi’s Father
Nafi’s Father
Tokara wants to marry his cousin, the beautiful Nafi, bringing their fathers into conflict with one another. The youngest brother is a clergyman, while the other is a candidate for ...
Yao
Yao
From his village in northern Senegal, Yao is a 13-year-old boy ready to do anything to meet his hero: Seydou Tall, a famous French actor. Invited to Dakar to promote his new book, the ...
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Le Franc
Le Franc
A penniless, fast-thinking musician buys a lottery ticket which he glues to his back door, in hopes of eventually retrieving his instrument from his exasperating landlady. —but the ...
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Almodou
Almodou
Sometimes distasteful practices are most effectively criticized with a good sense of humor. Meet Modou, a young, courageous and determined talibé - a pupil in a Koranic school - who ...
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Sakho & Mangane
Sakho & Mangane
Two cops with very different methods, solving mysterious murder cases surrounded by black magic.
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Saint Louis Blues
Saint Louis Blues
This sweet musical takes us on a cross-country trip through Senegal, from Dakar to Saint Louis in a battered taxi, as passengers sing their stories.
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Picc Mi
Picc Mi
Follows the story of two young boys and their adventure through the streets of Africa.
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Boxumaleen!!
Boxumaleen!!
Four junkyard kids go into town looking for something to cure their hero, Grand Batche. On the way, they come across various symbols of society: the cop, the mayor, the postman, the ...
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Karmen Gei
Karmen Gei
Bizet's Carmen gets a modern adaptation. Seducting, provocating, sensual. All the ingredients for a perfect drama. With her charm, Karmen gets out of many situations.
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Téranga Blues
Téranga Blues
A kind of Dakar rap musical, or contemporary urban opera, Teranga Blues is a reflection on the social mutations affecting the pride of the Senegalese people. It is surreal, lyrical, ...
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Niiwam
Niiwam
Harrowing story of a man who is forced to travel on a public bus with the body of his dead infant daughter in order to bury her.
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Virgo – Long Story Short
Virgo – Long Story Short
VIRGO is the story of an artist named NIX, known in his country for his music but also for his tumultuous relationships with women. He decides to make a spiritual retreat in Casamance ...
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The Making of Yaaba
The Making of Yaaba
Djibril Diop Mambéty followed and filmed the shooting of Yaaba, Idrissa Ouédraogo's second feature film. A documentary full of humorous anecdotes regarding the dangers of shooting in ...
Tang Jër
Tang Jër
An unusual Tangana tenant observes in his mysterious restaurant, the incessant ballet of the beings that populate the city of Dakar.
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Fire of Mansaré
Fire of Mansaré
A story about desire, choice and the freedom (or lack of it) of young people forced into a traditional practice where a male tags a girl at birth for marriage in adulthood.
Journée Noire
Journée Noire
Ngor, 23, a brilliant law school student, falls from police bullets after joining his comrades at the front.
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Boxing Girl
Boxing Girl
A bored 17-year-old hairdresser finds red boxing gloves after getting hit by a motorbike in Dakar. As soon as she puts them on, she gets mysteriously carried all over the city.
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Seni’s Children
Seni’s Children
Seni Camara lives with her husband and family in the village of Bigona, in the Casamance region in southern Senegal. Working outside the local tradition of making pots and “useful” ...
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A Tooth for a Tooth
A Tooth for a Tooth
Idrissa lives in the suburbs of Dakar, Senegal. As a result of budgetary restrictions imposed by the IMF, then headed by Dominique Strauss-Kahn, he lost his job as a civil servant. ...
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Birago Diop, Storyteller
Birago Diop, Storyteller
Birago Diop appears as the pioneer of African letters. He knew the long journey of poets of blackness from the 30s. But, while young writers Antillean and African chose poetry to ...
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And So Angels Die
And So Angels Die
A Senegalese man living in Paris with his French wife and children receives a letter from his father back home saying he has arranged for him to take a second wife. The man's indecision ...