Senegal Movies

In the community of Saint-Louis in Senegal, the installation of a Chinese merchant is causing a stir. Souleymane, a young Senegalese employee in the...

Ramatoulaye, a 50-year-old teacher, has been married to lawyer Modou Fall for 25 years. The couple is very close and happy. When her husband takes a...

In 2013, former Chadian dictator Hissein Habré’s arrest in Senegal marked the end of a long combat for the survivors of his regime. ...

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

A satire about young African men arriving in the district of Saint Germain des Prés in Paris during the 70s.

During a vacation in Bordeaux, Lili, 4, and her brothers, aged 9 and 20, find themselves left to their own devices when their flamboyant mother...

Sindiely tells the story of a greedy father wishing to marry his daughter to a successful fabric merchant, despite her love for another young man....

The story of four Senegalese youths from the suburbs of Dakar who are about to set their country ablaze in 2011, via the grassroots movement called...

Happy are those who, like Sekou, have had a great journey. A storyteller like his parents, he perfects his apprenticeship on a pilmigrage through...

This film is widely regarded as the first film made by an African south of the Sahara. Labelled an “ethnological documentary in reverse,”...

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...

With unprecedented access and dynamic 16mm cinematography, Touba reveals a different face of Islam by chronicling Sufi Muslims’ annual...

Thierry, a world-famous cyclist, meets Fae, a sex worker, on his holiday in Senegal, and they sense in each other the love they seek. However,...

Once upon a time there was a morning, noon, evening and night when the inseparable shadows of man told us about memory... Interview with Ousmane Sow,...

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...

The Senegal River forms the national border between Mauritania and Senegal. In 1989, war broke out between these countries, along and around the...

Fifteen-year-old Diamant from Dakar dreams of making films, but her family has other plans for her. To Diamant, however, these are out of the...

The theme of the rural exodus has inspired many African authors. In the past, by tradition, the young peasant went abroad temporarily to earn the...

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