Senegal Movies

Fifteen-year-old Mabil is passionate about contemporary dance and this passion sometimes leads him to imagine himself dancing in the street. For him,...

In a rural African village poised at the outer edge of the modern world, a teenage girl hatches a secret plan to rescue her 11-year-old sister from...

This film is widely regarded as the first film made by an African south of the Sahara. Labelled an “ethnological documentary in reverse,”...

The Waste Commons reveals the intricate lifeworlds and recycling networks built by waste pickers since 1968 at Dakar’s dump, Mbeubeuss. Adja...

When President Abdoulaye Wade wanted to run for office yet again in 2011, a resistance movement formed on the streets. Shortly afterwards, a group of...

Happy are those who, like Sekou, have had a great journey. A storyteller like his parents, he perfects his apprenticeship on a pilmigrage through...

As the founder of folk music in Senegal, Seydina Insa Wade had his hour of glory in the 1970s. After his departure for France in the 1980s, where he...

The Bamako Express takes more than 36 hours to connect Dakar to Bamako, about 1200 kilometers. During this crossing from West to East, multiple...

A mother goes to the hospital to get treatment for her sick baby, but is repeatedly referred elsewhere.

Forty-year-old Babou Diop lives with his son Sada, his wife Coumba and a sheep they raise in the house. At nine, Sada ends up forming a very strong...

Yama, a single mother with an autistic son, Yadikoon, loses her job. Alone and without resources, how will she find work?

Ndar, original name of Saint-Louis, an island at the mouth of the Senegal River, was the port of colonial penetration into West Africa four centuries...

Traana-Temporary Migrant is a theatre script written by Bouba Touré in 1977. The play tells a story of rural exodus, from the countryside to...

The story of four Senegalese youths from the suburbs of Dakar who are about to set their country ablaze in 2011, via the grassroots movement called...

When the lions eat the rooster

In his village, where bread is scarce, Ousseynou, a former fisherman, finds stability by selling stale bread. The opening of his sister-in-law's...

This is the story of time passing, at the slow pace of Ousmane Sow, and of time rushing by, from the birth of a work to its unveiling one spring day...

Today I became a man like my father, I go to meet him to find out what has kept him abroad for so many years without sending us any news, without...