Senegal Movies

In her short film, SAVOIR FAIRE LE LIT, Macky discusses taboos in sexual education and the implications for the relationship of mothers to their...

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...

Thierno Souleymane Diallo sets out with his camera in search of the birth of filmmaking in Guinea. Charming and determined, he traces his...

Part of a series of 4 films, Kinshasa (2018), Shenzhen (2019), New York (2019) and Dakar (2018), the project explores the relationship between...

Two new co-wives are alone in a house. The husband is away. They don’t want to talk to each other; at the same time, the voices of two other...

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

Shocked by French président Nicolas Sarkozy’s claim that the African man has no history, filmmaker Cheikh N’diaye sets out to...

Mounir, a cybersecurity expert, sees his life change on his thirtieth birthday. Jealous of his mother's love for his brother, Awa, his deceased twin...

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

Newsreel of Senegal’s 16th anniversary Independence celebrations. At the Demba-Diop stadium, tens of thousands of people watch the show...

Pamvura (At the Water) is a story about beliefs and unknown forces. Netsai, a devout young christian woman, she loses her child while doing laundry...

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

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...

Fode, Boubacar's father, decides to send his son to Paris to join his older brother Samba. There, for sure, he will become rich and able to send them...

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

In Oukout, four women meet every Sunday with their group to self-manage a microcredit system, along with the rice harvest. This food is a symbol of...

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...