Boulevards d’Afrique (1988) Duration: 1H10M Description: .. Trailer ↗ France Senegal 1988 Musical
Boulevards d'Afrique (1988)
Category: Senegal
L'appel des arènes (2005)
L’appel des arènes (2005) Duration: 1H45M Description: Literary adaptation: Thru the story of a quiet teenage boy introduced to a powerful wrestling champ, we learn about the specific features of a national tradition in Senegal… Trailer ↗ Senegal 2005 Drama
Saaraba (1988)
Saaraba (1988) Duration: 1H30M Description: Tamsir returns to Senegal after 17 years in Europe. His uncle gives him a patronage job in Dakar, virtually without duties. He visits his family’s village to see his parents, and there he meets the beautiful Lissa. Tamsir espouses….. Trailer ↗ Senegal 1988 Drama
Un transport en commun (2009)
Un transport en commun (2009) Duration: 48M Description: 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… Trailer ↗ France Senegal 2009 Drama Musical
Des étoiles (2013)
Des étoiles (2013) Duration: 1H27M Description: Between New York, Dakar and Turin, the fates of Sophie, Abdoulaye and Thierno intersect and intermingle. From disillusionment to decisive encounters, their journey will lead them to make the choice of freedom… Trailer ↗ France Belgium Senegal 2013 Drama
Twist à Popenguine (1994)
Twist à Popenguine (1994) Duration: 1H25M Description: This bittersweet, coming of age story is a kind of African equivalent of George Lucas’ American Graffiti, Spike Lee’s Crooklyn or Godard’s Masculin/Feminin… Trailer ↗ Senegal France 1994 Comedy Drama
Sembene! (2015)
Sembene! (2015) Duration: 1H29M Description: Meet Ousmane Sembene, the African freedom fighter who used stories as his weapon… Trailer ↗ Senegal United States 2015 Documentary Biography History
Baks (1974)
Baks (1974) Duration: 1H30M Description: .. Trailer ↗ Senegal 1974 Crime
Kodou (1971)
Kodou (1971) Duration: 1H40M Description: A young girl interrupts a ritual tattooing process and brings shame on her family when she runs away… Trailer ↗ Senegal 1971 Drama
La pirogue (2012)
La pirogue (2012) Duration: 1H27M Description: A group of African men leave Senegal in a pirogue captained by a local fisherman to undertake the treacherous crossing of the Atlantic to Spain where they believe better lives and prospects are waiting for them… Trailer ↗ France Senegal Germany 2012 Drama
Tableau ferraille (1997)
Tableau ferraille (1997) Duration: 1H32M Description: Tells the story of an idealistic young politician’s rise and fall. Daam, a well-intentioned but vacillating European-trained politician must choose between two social paradigms exemplified by his two wives. The first, Gagnesiri, i….. Trailer ↗ Senegal France 1997 Drama
Toubab Bi (1991)
Toubab Bi (1991) Duration: 1H36M Description: Soriba is from a village near Dakar. One day, he left to study cinema in Paris. He hopes to find Issa, his childhood friend, whom he has not heard from for seven years… Trailer ↗ France Senegal 1991 Comedy Drama
Touba (2013)
Touba (2013) Duration: 1H22M Description: ‘Touba’ reveals a different face of Islam by chronicling Sufi Muslims’ annual pilgrimage to the Senegalese city of Touba. With unprecedented access and dynamic 16mm cinematography, this poetic documentary takes us inside the Mouri….. Trailer ↗ United States Senegal 2013 Documentary History
N'Diangane (1975)
N’Diangane (1975) Duration: 1H40M Description: .. Trailer ↗ France Senegal 1975 Drama
Ramata (2009)
Ramata (2009) Duration: 1H30M Description: Ramata is a spellbindingly beautiful woman in her fifties. She has been married for thirty years now to Matar Samb, a very rich man, a former prosecutor who is now Minister of Justice. They live in Les Almadies, an elegant neighbo….. Trailer ↗ France Senegal 2009 Drama
Sembène: The Making of African Cinema (1994)
Sembène: The Making of African Cinema (1994) Duration: 1H Description: Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembène reminisces about his career and discusses the craft of his films and novels. Topics of discussion are also the role of the artist in society and the politics of decolonisation… Trailer ↗ Senegal 1994 Documentary
Griot (2011)
Griot (2011) Duration: 1H20M Description: A documentary about Ablaye Cissoko, a Senegalese mastersinger and Kora player, who is determined to preserve his thousand-year-old tradition… Trailer ↗ Germany United States France Senegal 2011 Documentary Adventure Biography
Grand comme le Baobab (2012)
Grand comme le Baobab (2012) Duration: 1H22M Description: 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 an arranged marriage… Trailer ↗ Senegal 2012 Adventure Drama
Xalé (2022)
Xalé (2022) Duration: 1H41M Description: Senegalese filmmaker Moussa Sène Absa boldly inflects contemporary melodrama with traditional storytelling modes in this potent, music-filled tale of one woman’s tragedy and transcendence… Trailer ↗ Côte d’Ivoire Senegal 2022 Drama
Twist à Bamako (2021)
Twist à Bamako (2021) Duration: 2H9M Description: In the 1960s, just after Mali gains its independence, a young socialist meets and falls in love with a woman trying to escape an arranged marriage… Trailer ↗ France Canada Senegal Italy Mali 2021 Drama History Romance