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- A Homeric fairy tale that tells the adventurous journey of two young boys, Seydou and Moussa, who leave Dakar to reach Europe.
- In a popular suburb of Dakar, workers on the construction site of a futuristic tower, without pay for months, decide to leave the country by the ocean for a better future. Among them is Souleiman, the lover of Ada, promised to another.
- Mory, a cowherd, and Anta, a university student, try to make money in order to go to Paris and leave their boring past behind.
- A money order from a relative in Paris throws the life of a Senegalese family man out of order. He deals with corruption, greed, problematic family members, the locals and the changing from his traditional way of living to a more modern one.
- In protest of forced conversion to Islam, the Ceddo (outsiders) kidnap King Demba War's daughter Princess Dior Yacine and hold her hostage.
- As World War II is going on in Europe, a conflict arises between the French and the Diola-speaking tribe of Africa, prompting the village women to organize their men to sit beneath a tree to pray.
- Dramaan is the most popular man in Colobane, but when a woman from his past, now exorbitantly wealthy, returns to the town, things begin to change.
- Magaye Niang, the main actor of Senegalese film classic Touki Bouki (1973), is an average farmer today. After a screening of the film he recalls his first love, who left the country years ago.
- A bright student in Nigeria takes on the academic establishment when she reports a popular professor who tried to rape her. Based on real events.
- 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.
- Nola, a Senegalese girl, arrives in the Canary Islands in a canoe. Then begins an epic through the most defining corners of the Canary Islands in search of a Canarian father whom he never knew. She will discover secrets about her past and about herself, meanwhile she share her adventure with different people.
- A girl sells copies of Soleil, the government paper.
- Mossane is a beautiful 14-year-old girl who has just reached marriageable age in a village in Senegal. She has many suitors, including a simple-minded farmer's son who plans to drag her away. Even her own brother Ngor is in love with her. However she is in love with Fara, a poor student who has returned to the village, while the university is on strike. At birth, she had been promised in marriage to Diogoye, who went away to work in France. Diogoye, who supplied her parents with many things over the years, has now sent a dowry, and asked that she be married to him in the village in his absence; she would then be sent to France.
- A broke and dopey musician, constantly harassed by his exasperated landlady, glues his lottery ticket to his door and when it turns out to be a winner must carry his door to the lottery office.
- '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 Mouride Brotherhood--one of West Africa's most elusive organizations and one of the world's largest Sufi communities. Annually more than one million Mourides travel from all over the world to the holy city of Touba to pay homage to the life and teachings of Cheikh Amadou Bamba in the pilgrimage known as the 'Grand Magaal.' Bamba's non-violent resistance to the French colonial persecution of Muslims in the late 19th century inspired a national movement and doctrine, freedom of religious expression through pacifism, still practiced by millions of his followers.
- A Senegalese boy arrives in Italy in search of fortune, with the desire to work in the fashion world. But life throws in some tragicomic situations.
- Mythical story about a fishing village on the south coast of Senegal. Two men in the village are both in love with the same beautiful girl.
- Sarcastic look at Senegal's capital following the adventures of a somewhat immoral street urchin.
- 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 neighborhood of Dakar. Ngor Ndong is twenty-five. He is young, strong, mysterious and homeless. He is an occasional petty crook, known to the police. One evening, in a taxi that Ngor Ndong just happens to be driving, Ramata, reticent at first, finally agrees to follow this young man half her age to the Copacabana, a dive in the seediest part of Dakar.
- MANE Two young women - two stories. A rapper in Dakar and a wrestler in southern Senegal: Toussa and Emodj. A battle with words and visionary lyrics for a better society, and a fight with hard physical training for victory in the arena.
- Joris Lachaise takes us to Thiaroye, in a suburb near Dakar, to enter the psychiatric hospital accompanied by writer and filmmaker Khady Sylla who has been admitted there several times. She meets up with her doctor, familiar patients and others with whom she discusses the delicate issue of therapeutic methods and their link with colonialism. The project is clearly ambitious, it combines the description of a place with portraits of beings marked by suffering, it blends the spectacle of different types of care (religious, traditional, modern) with considerations concerning the multiplicity of such care since we are present during discussions between marabouts and modern doctors about the possible coexistence of their practices. What remains of madness? Anything but meagre remnants: chaos, an uproar of silence and diatribes, a disturbing world where every- thing remains to be deciphered.
- During a workers strike, while people fight corruption and indignity, a griot tells stories about past struggles of the Senegalese people, all connected by the Wolof concept of "jom", a core virtue of respect, self-worth, and courage.
- Yoon follows the regular round trip taken by Senegalese carrier Mbaye Sow, on an old Peugeot 504, along the 4000 km that separate the two places he calls home, Portugal and Senegal.
- Amina, an African immigrant woman living in Turkey, tries to hold on to life through her dreams against the challenges of life.
- 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.
- In Africa, small jobs survive as resistance to the invasion of consumer goods. In compiling five shorts directed by the Senegalese documentary filmmaker, the film details the stages of making handicrafts from garbage dumped at landfills.
- In the lawless streets of West Africa, a group of teenagers are inspired by Hollywood films to turn to robbing banks as a means of saving their community.
- Samba, Un Nombre Borrado is a documentary that reflects on the disappeared people during their immigration process. In recent years, in parallel with the shielding of borders, has increased the number of people who lose their lives when trying to enter Europe. These deaths are often recorded when the sea carries their bodies to Spanish beaches. In most cases, the protocol followed with these individuals is to register them, in the nearest cemetery, with the identifier of Young, Male, Black Race. Un Nombre Borrado tries to name and recover the identity of one of these disappeared, Samba Banjai, a young Senegalese who disappeared the night of February 7, 2014 when he tried to cross the border of El Tarajal (Ceuta).
- Mariama is the best student in her village and has a bright future. Her parents dream of sending her to America. But a predatory teacher and the malevolence of patriarchy threaten to derail it all.
- Ouloulou, Baldé and Doucouré are three young immigrants from West Africa. They say they faced the crossing of the Mediterranean, thanks to their marabout or spiritual guides who recommended prayers and rituals. Once they arrived in Valencia, Spain, they kept in touch with their marabout in the hope that he would continue to improve their living conditions. In Mali, Bakary, who has already tried to cross the sea without success, is preparing this time for a new journey under the eye of his marabout. Every day, in Mali, Valencia, Madrid or Turia, these young people perform rituals, pray and listen to the advice of a marabout through their smartphones, which has become an indispensable spiritual connection. A real modern-day cellular gris-gris. Together, in their hectic daily lives, they take us into the world of African spirituality in the age of new technologies.
- Old men who brutally and relentlessly cling on to their roles as heads of state have become colossally negative images in many countries of Africa, including Senegal. 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 school friends, including rappers Thiat and Kilifeu, set up "Y'en a marre" ("We Are Fed Up"), with filmmaker Rama Thiaw soon coming on board to start documenting events - meetings, campaigns, arrests, concerts, states of exhaustion, trips - from an "insider" perspective.
- A young girl interrupts a ritual tattooing process and brings shame on her family when she runs away.
- Marième is a Aji-bi, living in a small Senegalese community stranded in Casablanca. Hesitating between a regularization in Morocco or crossing to Europe, women of all ages manage to survive in a Moroccan society both generous and hostile.
- In the holy city of Touba, an Islamic caliphate in the heart of Senegal, every child is called to memorize the verses of the Qur'an and to work in the fields of his spiritual father. In this intense encounter with the world of adults, their childhoods reveal an inexhaustible strenght.
- The impressive attempt of Senegalese people, to outwit one of the greatest mass murderers of our time.
- The inhabitants of Bakadadji, a village located in a Senegalese national park, are trying to finance fencing to secure their fields from protected species of animals that ruin their crops year after year. In doing so, these farmers are claiming recognition for their rural way of life, to which they are deeply attached. Reflecting the village's everyday reality, this film talks about a meeting that does not actually take place, as well as how we view rural society, whose voice is barely heard.
- A woman goes in search of her missing husband for three days behind the scenes of Dakar.
- 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.