Senegal Movies

Sabali, which means 'patient' and 'immortal', tells the story of Moudou's exodus and the resilience of his migration. It follows his clandestine...

When his novel Bound to violence was published in 1968 by the Editions du Seuil, Yambo Ouologuem was still a young Malian writer, a complete stranger...

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

Senegalese documentary about the country's most famous film-maker - Ousmane Sembène. The groundbreaking director explains his philosophy,...

A young boy from an affluent family has the experience of a lifetime after his first day of school.

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...

This film follows Maria Esther, Jose Agrippino's partner, as she falls into a trance; the film takes place in the day-to-day setting of a room...

AI: African Intelligence explores the contact zones between African rituals of possession within traditional fishing villages of the Atlantic coast...

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...

Malian-French director Daouda Coulibaly's auspicious debut is a pulse-pounding political thriller. Wùlu tells the unsettling tale of a man's...

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

A hunter dies in a lion's jaws and leaves a wife and two children. The elder child, who is now the only man around the house, is called the little...

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...

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...

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...

A documentary work on Senegal's DUNNIART collective, showing the lives and experiences of creatives and artists who share their work with pride and...

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,”...

As the founder of folk music in Senegal, Seydina Insa Wade had his hour of glory in the 1970s. After his departure for France in the 1980s, where he...