Senegal Movies

Every Eid celebration, Anta has the task of bringing the leg of lamb to her paternal grandmother, as tradition dictates. This year, she begs her...

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...

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

Adama Coly, a young recruit to the Senegalese judicial police, is assigned an investigation: the murder of the Joola madwoman, the sole survivor of...

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,...

Dyma and Tina, an actor and make-up artist from neighboring villages, share a love life in town. When he learns that his father gave him away for...

Tokara wants to marry his cousin, the beautiful Nafi, bringing their fathers into conflict with one another. The youngest brother is a clergyman,...

Yama, a single mother with an autistic son, Yadikoon, loses her job. Alone and without resources, how will she find work?

In his village, where bread is scarce, Ousseynou, a former fisherman, finds stability by selling stale bread. The opening of his sister-in-law's...

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...

Fadiouck is a former soccer coach who gave up everything after losing all the members of his team. A survivor of the terrible shipwreck of the...

When Serigne Ibra finally decides to get married, he declares that his future bride must not only be a ravishing beauty, but also must not have any...

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

Fifteen-year-old Mabil is passionate about contemporary dance and this passion sometimes leads him to imagine himself dancing in the street. For him,...

Seni Camara lives with her husband and family in the village of Bigona, in the Casamance region in southern Senegal. Working outside the local...

When the lions eat the rooster

A trendy taxi-driver races through the streets of Dakar. His passenger is a western, blonde young lady who doesn't seem in the least interested in...

The star-stubbed cast includes Issac de Bankolè as Saar, a blind beggar, and Danny Glover as a corrupt president. In this often hilarious mix...

In a rural African village poised at the outer edge of the modern world, a teenage girl hatches a secret plan to rescue her 11-year-old sister from...