Senegal Movies

In Africa, small jobs survive as resistance to the invasion of consumer goods. In compiling five shorts directed by the Senegalese documentary...

Ken and Jeeli are two 12-year-old children. Their greatest desire is to explore the city. So they decide to run away from the island of Gorée,...

An intervention of the old Portuguese colonial system through the "shaking" or exorcism of the Maison des Esclaves (House of Slaves) on Gorée...

During the 1997 war in Congo DRC former Zaire, Francine, a 12-year-old Congolese girl, was recruited by the Rwandan army and its Ugandan ally, led by...

An African immigrant finds Paris to be other than the stereotyped image of the city.

Newsreel of the third Festival of the Arts in the Nigerian city of Ife, launched in the city’s university. A celebration of the arts...

To sail down the Niger River for over five hundred kilometers to meet the populations and their music, that is the challenge taken up by a dozen...

In the heart of colonial Senegal, moving to the devastating battlefields of Europe during WWII, Awa and Ibrahim are a young couple whose lives are...

"All Equal!" is an evocative animated film that unfolds around a village fire where a grandfather narrates the poignant tale of his ancestors and...

When he sneaks into a Simb—a festival where men dressed as lions dance to the rhythm of the sabars—Assane, a quiet young boy, sets in...

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...

Newsreel on President Senghor’s trip to Guadeloupe and Martinique. Report from the set of Ousmane Sembène’s Ceddo. Opening of...

The film opens with a striking image: seven children in rags, aged 7 to 19, crawl out from under a Brazzaville market stall where they have spent the...

Twenty-seven year old Altine is a mother of two, living on the plains of Northern Senegal. As we watch her going about her daily chores, rhythmically...

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...

Maam Kumba Bang is the spirit of the waters of the island of Saint Louis. Its mysterious and mythical presence governs the city and river and the...

The drought forces a peasant couple to go to the city, where they meet people's indifference. Only a trade unionist will offer them any help.

This film was made in the Delta of the Saloum (Senegal), over a period of four years and shot during different seasons. It is the story of a young...

Return To Podor is a documentary that follows Senegalese artist Baaba Maal and Mumford and Sons on their journey to the most remote music festival in...

An unusual Tangana tenant observes in his mysterious restaurant, the incessant ballet of the beings that populate the city of Dakar.