Senegal Movies

A cart-taxi driver goes to the city to make a living, but out of sympathy with other poverty-stricken people, he works for free and goes hungry...

Badou Boy, a cheeky young man, travels through the streets of Dakar on the city buses and experiences adventures.

Bisagras is a film that triangulates the journey of African slaves to America and draws a line that goes through my brown skin.

A Senegalese platoon of soldiers from the French Free Army return from combat and are temporarily held in a military encampment with barbed wire...

In a burning world, wrecked by pollution, a survivor is heading towards his final destination.

An intriguing look at an authoritarian state on the verge of democratization: how Zimbabwe got a new constitution. Two political enemies are forced...

Une nation est née depicts the progression of Senegal from colonization to sovereignty, shown allegorically through scenes of dance and...

In a near future, the villages of a Sub-Saharan area have all been deserted. Mad and disabled people as well as child soldiers are the only ones who...

In a bid to impress his girlfriend, a young man engages a traditional healer to help him get rich quick. Unfortunately, he accidentally meets Gringo,...

Traana-Temporary Migrant is a theatre script written by Bouba Touré in 1977. The play tells a story of rural exodus, from the countryside to...

Meet Ousmane Sembene, the African freedom fighter who used stories as his weapon.

After a brutal attack, a young nomad named Sira refuses to surrender to her fate without a fight and instead takes a stand against Islamist terror. A...

When the lions eat the rooster

An in depth look at ‘FRAPP’, a collective of young Senegalese activists in Dakar, as the country prepares for its most decisive...

From école Normale Supérieure to the barricades of May 68 in Paris, to the jails of Gorée Island in Dakar where he died in 1973,...

A young girl with a physical disability arrives in Dakar and challenges the convention of boys selling newspapers on the street.

Issa cherishes those moments when he can lie on his bed daydreaming. But as day breaks, work beckons, and he ventures out into the noisy streets of...

Taxi Sister is a documentary about Boury, a female taxi driver in Dakar, Senegal. As a woman behind the wheel she leads a busy life filled with...

Dembe died of an overdose in the distant metropolis of Dakar. His father refuses to bury him in the family graveyard in the village, believing that...

Haunted by the death of her mother, a young woman drifting through Dakar crosses paths with a secretive sisterhood of soul-eating women — the...