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- In 2003, a trio of mercenaries escaping a coup in Guinea-Bissau take refuge in a hidden region on the Saloum river of Senegal. But something from beyond the grave awaits them there.
- A corrupt politician is cursed with impotence on the night of his third wedding after embezzling 100 tons of rice.
- A black girl from Senegal becomes a servant in France.
- 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.
- Mory, a cowherd, and Anta, a university student, try to make money in order to go to Paris and leave their boring past behind.
- 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.
- When a woman shelters a group of girls from suffering female genital mutilation, she starts a conflict that tears her village apart.
- Hawa, a young girl who lives alone with her terminally ill grandmother. When she learns that Michelle Obama is visiting Paris, Hawa has the crazy idea of being adopted by this personality, whom she admires more than anything...
- In this semi-autobiographical film, black soldiers help to defend France, but are detained in prison camp before being repatriated home.
- 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.
- A girl sells copies of Soleil, the government paper.
- Boron Sarret is arguably the first film made by a black African. It illustrates poverty in Senegal, particularly for the working man.
- Americo-Senegalese Tabara suffers from nightmares, in which an evil creature taunts her. After unsuccessful therapy, Tabara decides to travel to Senegal to seek mystical treatment. She will discover dark secrets about her lineage.
- At the height of her professional career, Aby 32, marries 25 year old Bachir, a serial seducer (predator) who loves that women take care of him. She believes she is living the true love when her life slips into a descent into hell, she discovers the double life of her husband.
- Idrissa, civil servant, lives in the suburbs of Dakar, Senegal. Due to IMF budgetary restriction measures he loses his job. When his wages dry up, he is forced to live at the expense of his wife. He strives to regain his manly pride.
- Burial of a Christian political activist in a Muslim cemetary forces a conflict imbued with religious fervor. A satiric portrayal of religion and politics, sometimes humorous, sometimes deadly serious.
- A young unemployed man fends off accusations of laziness and makes a home for his pregnant girlfriend who has been rejected by her family.
- A forty-year-old woman refuses to give into the stigma of unwed motherhood and climbs the ladder of success in a male dominated field.
- Like every Carmen, Karmen Geï is about the conflict between infinite desire for freedom and the laws, conventions, languages, the human limitations which constrain that desire.
- Meet Ousmane Sembene, the African freedom fighter who used stories as his weapon.
- Two cops with very different methods, solving mysterious murder cases surrounded by black magic.