Senegal Movies

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

A kind of Dakar rap musical, or contemporary urban opera, Teranga Blues is a reflection on the social mutations affecting the pride of the Senegalese...

From London to Paris, Marseille to finish in Dakar, we start looking for various African neighborhood in order to film various types and techniques...

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

Each year, the pilgrimage of the Muslim brotherhood of the Mourides takes place in Touba. From all over Senegal (and even from all over the world)...

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...

Ndar, original name of Saint-Louis, an island at the mouth of the Senegal River, was the port of colonial penetration into West Africa four centuries...

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...

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...

"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...

Return To Podor is a documentary that follows Senegalese artist Baaba Maal and Mumford and Sons on their journey to the most remote music festival in...

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

We hear the thoughts of Amy, a girl from a rural area of Senegal who works as a domestic for a well-to-do family in Dakar. She complains about her...

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...

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...

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

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...

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