Senegal Movies

In April 2006, a small boat was found drifting aimlessly along the eastern coast of Barbados. Local fishermen left the boat alone for many weeks,...

Baba, a 20 year old Senegalese, dreams of becoming a soccer player in France.

Senegalese often set up a temporary stage at a street corner. It is the Guew Bi, the dancing circle where a cheerful crowd dressed in beautiful...

Zirconium mining is affecting communities along Senegal's Grande Côte coastline. The Grande Côte Operations open-pit mine is cutting into...

Maodo returns to his home in Nouakchott after a long trip. He resumes his old job as a traveling merchant to support his family. One night, the young...

This documentary explores the contemporary graffiti culture of Dakar, where painters, rappers and taggers have created a language of dissent and...

Junior and Mamadou try to reconcile their grandparents, who were friends in the 1960s, inspired by the films of Ousmane Sembène. Although...

First iteration of a three part curatorial essay made in Dakar in August 2020. The project explores the rhetoric of black and African folklore and...

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

In Wolof, ‘Goor-Jigeen’ means male/female, by generalization ‘gay’ and akin to an insult. In Senegal, being homosexual is...

The Cry of the Sea is about the struggle of a mother, Yaye Bayam Diouf, who lost her only son in a dugout (or boat) for the Canary Islands. Today,...

Documentary about an Ivorian emigration agency.

A lonely petrol station attendant summons a spirit to make his wishes come true, but finds himself confronted by something sinister.

We follow the day of princess, who lives deep under the sea and is called by cauri shells to travel across time and space. On their journey they...

Researcher and audiovisual artist Janilda Bartolomeu presents a film that depicts the dreams of the Cape Verdean diaspora. It is a personal, poetic...

This is a tragic story of Freedom, Despair, and then Revelation And you'll see it through the EYES of an Attacker or a Victim and then, you'll decide...