Country: Senegal

Direction Ousmane Sembene · Thierno Faty Sow

Cast Sidiki Bakaba · Hamed Camara · Philippe Chamelat · Ismaila Cissé

Direction Ousmane Sembene

Cast Maimouna Helene Diarra · Fatoumata Coulibaly · Salimata Traore · Dominique T. Zeida

Synopsis Set in a village in Burkina Faso, his latest film tackles the subject of female genital mutilation, but its political resonance is hardly limited to the parts of Africa where that custom is practiced. Colle (Fatoumata Coulibaly), the tough-minded second...

Direction Ousmane Sembene

Cast Mbissine Thérèse Diop · Anne-Marie Jelinek · Robert Fontaine · Momar Nar Sene

Synopsis Black Girl tells the story of Diouanne, a young Senegalese woman eager to find a better life and who takes a job as a governess for a bourgeois French family. Mistreated by her employers, Diouanne’s hopes turn to disillusionment and...

Direction Mansour Sora Wade

Cast Hubert Koundé · Rokhaya Niang · Gora Seck · Alioune Ndiaye

Direction Djibril Diop Mambéty

Cast Ami Diakhate · Djibril Diop Mambéty · Mansour Diouf · Calgou Fall

Synopsis Dramaan is the most popular man in Colobane, but when a woman from his past, now exorbitantly wealthy, returns to the town, things begin to change.

Direction Djibril Diop Mambéty

Cast Lissa Balera · Aminata Fall · Tayerou M'Baye

Synopsis Following Le Franc and conceived as the second installment of an unfinished trilogy of dramatic shorts entitled “Tales of Little People, Mambety works in a simpler, almost fabular style that reflects his move beyond documenting Africa’s victimization towards envisioning the...

Direction Samba Gadjigo · Jason Silverman

Cast Ousmane Sembene

Synopsis To speak of African cinema is to speak the name of Ousmane Sembene (1923-2007). Known as "the father of African film," this was no easy title to bear, as shown in this personal essay about one of the Africa's greatest...

Direction Mati Diop

Cast Dowoti Desir · Micheline Ayinon · Bicarel Gnikpo · Nadia Vihoutou Kponadou

Synopsis November 2021. 26 royal treasures of the Kingdom of Dahomey are about to leave Paris to return to their country of origin, the present-day Republic of Benin. Along with thousands of others, these artefacts were plundered by French colonial troops...

Direction Moussa Touré

Cast Souleymane Seye Ndiaye · Laïty Fall · Malaminé 'Yalenguen' Dramé · Balla Diarra

Synopsis Baye Laye is the captain of a fishing pirogue. Like many of his Senegalese compatriots, he sometimes dreams of new horizons, where he can earn a better living for his family. When he is offered to lead one of the...

Direction Ousmane Sembene

Cast Douta Seck · Makhouredia Gueye · Seun Samb · Tierno Leye

Synopsis A rich, corrupt business executive marries for the third time for the express purpose of getting his name in the papers. After a disappointing wedding night, the businessman discovers that he's impotent. As he goes through a series of "cures"...

Direction Mati Diop

Cast Magaye Niang · Wasis Diop · Ben D. Beye · Joe Ouakam

Synopsis The story of Mati Diop's family is entangled with the history of cinema and the history of Senegal, as embodied by Magaye Niang, the protagonist of the Senegalese cult film 'Touki Bouki'.

Direction Ousmane Sembene

Cast Makhouredia Gueye · Ynousse N'Diaye · Isseu Niang · Serigne N'Diayes

Synopsis The film is about an unemployed African man, Ibrahima, who lives with his two wives and kids. A nephew of his sends him a money order from France worth 25,000 Francs which he has saved from working as a street...

Direction Ousmane Sembene

Cast Ly Abdoulaye · Melle N’Diaye · Albourah

Synopsis Senegalese director Ousmane Sembène's Borom Saret tells the story of a poor man trying to make a living as a cart driver in Dakar. While he expects to be paid for his services, he never makes it clear, so when...

Direction Mamadou Dia

Cast Alassane Sy · Penda Daly Sy · Saikou Lô

Synopsis A fight between an Imam and his powerful brother over their childrens' marriage. At stake: how a small community slowly drifts towards extremism.

Direction Djibril Diop Mambéty

Cast Dieye Ma Dieye · Aminata Fall · Demba Bâ

Synopsis 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. The ticket wins, and our hero begins a harrowing odyssey throughout his shanty town,...

Direction Djibril Diop Mambéty

Cast Magaye Niang · Mareme Niang · Aminata Fall · Ousseynou Diop

Synopsis Mory, a cowherd who rides a motorcycle mounted with a cow's skull, and Anta, a university student, have met in Dakar, Senegal's capital. Alienated and disaffected with Senegal and Africa, they long to go to Paris and work up different...

Direction Ousmane Sembene

Cast Robert Fontaine · Michel Remaudeau · Pierre Blanchard

Direction Ramata-Toulaye Sy

Cast Khady Mane · Mamadou Diallo · Binta Racine Sy · Moussa Sow

Synopsis A young couple in Senegal must content with the disapproval of their remote village.

Direction Mama Keïta

Cast William Nadylam · Ibrahima Mbaye · Mouss Diouf · Mame Ndoumbé Diop

Synopsis After doing brilliantly in her studies and a 15 year absence, Adama, a young polytechnician, rushes back to Senegal, her home country, when she receives a telegram saying her grandmother is very ill. Her brief stay will revive a family...

Direction Ousmane Sembene

Cast Tabata Ndiaye · Moustapha Yade · Ismaila Diagne · Matoura Dia