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- A black girl from Senegal becomes a servant in France.
- 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.
- Mory, a cowherd, and Anta, a university student, try to make money in order to go to Paris and leave their boring past behind.
- 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...
- A corrupt politician is cursed with impotence on the night of his third wedding after embezzling 100 tons of rice.
- In protest of forced conversion to Islam, the Ceddo (outsiders) kidnap King Demba War's daughter Princess Dior Yacine and hold her hostage.
- In this semi-autobiographical film, black soldiers help to defend France, but are detained in prison camp before being repatriated home.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Meet Ousmane Sembene, the African freedom fighter who used stories as his weapon.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- At dusk, the spirit world grows bolder. The darkness of the Dakar market is considered no place for children to venture. But Binta must prove to her peers that girls have the bravery to lead.
- A fight between an Imam and his powerful brother over their children's marriage. At stake: how a small community slowly drifts towards extremism.
- The video pitch is a remake of a film extract from Shock Corridor by Sam Fuller in 1963. In this extract a young black man is seen praising the 'KKK'. Colors in the video (B&W), are like a 'recipient' where we can find, put, different colors so peoples, communities. My intention through this work is to trigger some reflection about ' Intercommunity racism ', without crediting this work with moralizing. I trying not to be in the expected places, in front of some reality, situation, but trigger some debate by suggesting a different point of view, some other hypothesis.
- Two cops with very different methods, solving mysterious murder cases surrounded by black magic.
- The hilarious adventures of the worlds WORST assassins. Set what seems a simple hit on an old lady after her greedy grand-daughter decides she wants all of her money, the intrepid trio of assassins set off on what should be a simple job. But what ensues is anything but simple...in-fact some would call it chaotic.
- 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.
- Ngor is a young man living in a Senegalese village who wishes to marry Columba. Ongoing drought in the village has affected its crop of groundnuts and as a result, Ngor cannot afford the bride price for Columba.
- 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 an arranged marriage.
- A young unemployed man fends off accusations of laziness and makes a home for his pregnant girlfriend who has been rejected by her family.
- Aisha is a single mother who tries to juggle several responsibilities. To calm her anxiety, she resorts to magic in her daily life, without really believing in it. Aisha is short on money: she receives an eviction notice that prompts her to leave within 30 days. Desperate, she decides to buy a lottery ticket. That night, Aisha does magic in the hopes of being guided. She gets a vision, a street sign. The next day, Aisha shows up to the mysterious rendezvous. She meets a suspicious being, who whispers in her ear that they can help. They offer her a deal: if she promises to serve their "master" on earth, she will be rich forever. After a sleepless night, Aisha decides to take the deal. Aisha goes back to the street where she met the strange being. She calls for them and they appear. She decides to take the deal. He says everything comes at a price, but Aisha does not care: she wants power, money, freedom. A few days later, as Aisha watches TV at home and discovers she won the lottery. She runs to her bedroom to celebrate with her child. As she walks in, at the sight of the bloody crib, she understands what was the price to pay. Her baby's life.
- 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.
- TV SeriesArchitect and martial artist Gabriel returns to Senegal after his father's death. Defying police dismissals, he investigates, uncovering links to Dakar's underworld. He joins an NGO, discovering an uplifting vision for his country.
- Forty protagonists, witnesses and victims look back at the 1989 massacres on both sides of the Senegal River, the border between Mauritania and Senegal, in order to understand what really happened.
- Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembène reminisces about his career and discusses the craft of his films and novels. Topics of discussion are also the role of the artist in society and the politics of decolonisation.
- 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.
- The pregnancy of a young girl scandalizes her community.
- Drama based around the lives of five very different women living in contemporary Dakar.
- 1960 marked the end of the colonial empires across the African continent. France disappeared from the map, leaving behind the CFA Franc, a colonial creation, which is the name of the currency that still circulates in almost all of its former territories south of the Sahara. How does it come, those countries, once they regained their freedom, never denounced this strange legacy? The film delves into a little-known story that started in the 19th century and continues to the present time.
- In Fad'jal, Safi Faye tells the story of a Serer village in the groundnut basin of Senegal. Using the words of their ancestors passed on by oral folklore, the villagers trace the history of their village and their difficulties in working their land and living off their produce. Fad'jal is an extraordinary boundary defying film that interweaves ethnographic footage, intimate observation of everyday village life and fictionalised historical scenes. With it, Faye carefully encourages the viewers to reflect both on African history and storytelling, and on the intersection of fiction and documentary.
- Sarcastic look at Senegal's capital following the adventures of a somewhat immoral street urchin.
- In times of social distance and the barrier gesture to protect one's neighbor, expression becomes an invaluable act to preserve our humanities. In Mbas mi, the director invites Goo Mamadou Ba to lend his voice to revive an essential text by Albert Camus. In the twilight of memory island, an incantatory voice rises. Carried by the surf, it changes according to a memory. From the alleys dotted with man-lanterns to the tops of sentinel baobabs, the words of "La Peste" resonate.
- Moussa is instructed by the courts to open an addiction treatment centre on pain of imprisonment if unsuccessful and to include his son among the detainees.
- Old men who brutally and relentlessly cling on to their roles as heads of state have become colossally negative images in many countries of Africa, including Senegal. 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 school friends, including rappers Thiat and Kilifeu, set up "Y'en a marre" ("We Are Fed Up"), with filmmaker Rama Thiaw soon coming on board to start documenting events - meetings, campaigns, arrests, concerts, states of exhaustion, trips - from an "insider" perspective.