Senegal, 1917. Als sein 17-jähriger Sohn Thierno von der französischen Armee zwangsrekrutiert wird, meldet sich der Hirte Bakary Diallo freiwillig zum Kriegsdienst. Vater und Sohn werden nach Europa gebracht, wo sie für Frankreich in die Schlacht ziehen sollen. Während Bakary nichts unversucht lässt, um das Überleben seines Sohnes zu sichern, gerät dieser unter den Einfluss des französischen Leutnants Chambreau. Nach und nach beginnt Thierno, sich seinem Vater zu widersetzen.
Eager to find a better life abroad, a Senegalese woman becomes a mere governess to a family in southern France, suffering from discrimination and marginalization.
From his village in northern Senegal, Yao is a 13-year-old boy ready to do anything to meet his hero: Seydou Tall, a famous French actor. Invited to Dakar to promote his new book, the latter goes to his country of origin for the first time. To fulfill his dream, the young Yao organizes his fugue and brave 387 kilometers alone to the capital. Touched by this child, the actor decides to flee his obligations and to accompany him home. But on the dusty and uncertain roads of Senegal, Seydou understands that while rolling towards the village of the child, it also rolls towards its roots.
Drei Söldner, die einen Drogenboss aus Guinea-Bissau herausholen, müssen sich in der mystischen Region Saloum im Senegal verstecken.
In der brennenden Hitze der Sahel-Wüste liegt das kleine senegalesische Dorf Colobane. Alles geht seinen gewohnten Gang, bis ein Gerücht die Runde macht. Die schwerreiche Linguère Ramatou soll nach über 30 Jahren in ihr Heimatdorf zurückkehren, mit Geschenken und einem perfiden Angebot an die Dorfbewohner im Gepäck: Wenn sie ihr den beliebten Ladenbesitzer Draman Drameh ausliefern, winkt dem ganzen Dorf eine Belohnung in Form von ungekanntem Reichtum. Ramatou hat noch eine alte Rechnung offen mit Drameh. Der hatte sich vor vielen Jahren geweigert, die Vaterschaft für das ungeborene Kind der schwangeren, 17-jährigen Ramatou anzuerkennen. Angesichts der Schande blieb dem Mädchen nur die Flucht. Sie fand sich als Prostituierte wieder, verlor ihr Kind und schwor Rache.Als immer mehr Dorfbewohner auf Pump bei Drameh einkaufen und sich die teuersten Leckereien gönnen, beschleicht den betagten Mann die Ahnung, dass da etwas nicht stimmt ...
Mali, 1960. The youth of Bamako dance the twist to rock and roll music newly imported from the West and dream of political renewal. Samba, a young socialist, falls for spirited Lara during one of his missions to the bush. To escape her forced marriage, she secretly flees with him to the city. But Lara’s husband won’t let them be and the Revolution soon brings painful disillusions as they dream of a future together.
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.
A series of six dramatic shorts, each from a different African country and all on the broad theme of "love in Africa.".
Félicité, a strong and proud woman, sings in bars in Kinshasa. She drifts away from reality when her 14-year-old son gets into an accident. In electric Kinshasa, she wanders in a world of music & dreams... until love unexpectedly brings her back to life.
When King Demba War sides with the Muslims, the Ceddo kidnap his daughter, Princess Dior Yacine, to protest their forcible conversion to Islam.
Soriba Samb is a Senegalese who has just received a much sought after internship to study filmmaking in Paris. Soriba heads to Paris, accompanied by the five-year old son of a friend who he believes to be still living in Paris. On arrival he struggles to find the boy’s father. In addition to coping with his new internship, Soriba has to also spend time tracking down the boy’s father ‘Issa’.
1972 dreht Djibril Diop Mambety „Touki Bouki“. Mory und Anta sind verliebt. Zwei junge Liebende teilen denselben Traum: von Dakar nach Paris zu gehen. Im schicksalhaften Moment schifft sich Anta ein. Mory bleibt allein am Kai, unfähig, sich von seinem Land loszureißen. Vierzig Jahre später untersucht "A Thousand Suns" das persönliche und universelle Erbe, das "Touki Bouki" repräsentiert. Was ist seitdem passiert? Magaye Niang, der Held des Films, hat Dakar nie verlassen. Und heute fragt sich der alte Cowboy, wo seine Jugendliebe Anta ist. Geschichten über Familie, Exil und Kino begegnen sich zwischen der Sphäre der Intimität und der des Mythos.
Young adults Banel and Adama live in a small remote village in northern Senegal. Adama is introverted and discreet while Banel is passionate and rebellious, they are destined to love each other with an eternal love. But the couple will be put to the test by the conventions of the community, because where they live, there is no place for passions, and even less for the chaos.
The debut feature from Franco-Senegalese filmmaker Dyana Gaye charts the interconnected destinies of three far-flung sojourners across three continents. A quiet drama, about the anxieties of negotiating journeying to foreign countries and making a place for oneself in the world.
A Senegalese man living in Paris with his French wife and children receives a letter from his father back home saying he has arranged for him to take a second wife. The man's indecision outrages his French wife and leads to the end of his marriage, his return to Senegal and his reflection about how his life has ended up.
A Senegalese platoon of soldiers from the French Free Army are returned from combat in France and held for a temporary time in a military encampment with barbed wire fences and guard towers in the desert. Among their numbers are Sergeant Diatta, the charismatic leader of the troop who was educated in Paris and has a French wife and child, and Pays, a Senegalese soldier left in a state of shock from the war and concentration camps and who can only speak in guttural screams and grunts.
Thierno Souleymane Diallo sets out with his camera in search of the birth of filmmaking in Guinea. Charming and determined, he traces his country’s film heritage and history and reveals the importance of film archives.
Bizet's Carmen gets a modern adaptation. Seducting, provocating, sensual. All the ingredients for a perfect drama. With her charm, Karmen gets out of many situations.
Senegalesian film directed by Moussa Sene Absa.
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.
Short lo-fi film set in Senegal. Mostly focussing on a group of Senegalese youths, discussing their hopes and fears concerning the crossing of the atlantic to get to Europe. Will life be easier there or not?
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El Hadj is studying in Paris. He is one of the young Senegalese men who have come to Paris since the French colony became independent to get a good education so that he can serve his fatherland on his return. Unexpectedly he is suddenly confronted by a problem with his residence papers, just because he has arranged an extension too late. His pleasant life filled with good prospects has gone in one fell swoop. He faces a dilemma. He can stay illegally in France, the country where he feels at home, where he has his friends, has fallen in love and can drink water from the tap. Or he can return (without graduating) to the 3rd-world country of Senegal to use the knowledge he has acquired. It is not only a practical choice. It comes down to the question of who he is, who he thought he could be.
In the aftermath of the Algerian War, a young Algerian woman reaches a strange reconciliation with the Senegalese officer who raped and impregnated her.
A beautiful 14-year-old girl has just reached marriageable age in a village in Senegal. She has many suitors; however, she is in love a poor student who has returned to the village while the university is on strike. At birth, she had been promised in marriage to Diogoye, who went away to work in France. Diogoye, who supplied her parents with many things over the years, has now sent a dowry, and asked that she be married to him in the village in his absence; she would then be sent to France.
A complex visual study of the women of rural Senegal. Through a complicity of interaction between film and spectator, Reassemblage reflects on documentary filmmaking and the ethnographic representation of cultures.
A penniless, fast-thinking musician buys a lottery ticket which he glues to his back door, in hopes of eventually retrieving his instrument from his exasperating landlady. —but the ticket wins...