Senegal Movies

In this meditative and elegiac portrait, Senegalese filmmakers Khady and Mariama Sylla record the tales of their grandmother, a griot (storyteller)...

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...

Upon returning to Gandiol, his native Senegalese village, after 8 years of being a migrant in Spain, Mamadou seeks to be a positive force for his...

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...

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...

At dusk, the spirit world grows bolder. The darkness of the Dakar market where the solitary, slender figure of Pa Kong-Kong dwells, is considered no...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

After two years absence, Alassane Diago comes back to his village in Senegal’s Futat region to try and understand how and why his mother has...

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

This film poses the problem of the emancipation of women in Senegal through the intersecting story of three young girls from the same family. Raised...

Why do so many Africans dream of going to Europe? Are they aware of the dangers and racism? Sunu Gaal (Our Cayuco) follows young people from Senegal...

In a beach town on the coast of Senegal sits a basketball academy attended by the most promising players in Africa. Through the eyes of NBA Academy...

“Sooner or later, I’ll return to where my other self is.” The everyday experiences of a Senegalese student in West Berlin are...