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Movies: Best Movies in Wolof

Wolof ( WOH-lof; Wolof làkk, وࣷلࣷفْ لࣵکّ) is a Niger–Congo language spoken by the Wolof people in much of West African subregion of Senegambia that is split between the countries of Senegal, Mauritania, and the Gambia. Like the neighbouring languages Serer and Fula, it belongs to the Senegambian branch of the Niger–Congo language family. Unlike most other languages of its family, Wolof is not a tonal language. Wolof is the most widely spoken language in Senegal, spoken natively by the Wolof people (40% of the population) but also by most other Senegalese as a second language. Wolof dialects vary geographically and between rural and urban areas. The principal dialect of Dakar, for instance, is an urban mixture of Wolof, French, and Arabic. Wolof is the standard spelling and may also refer to the Wolof ethnicity or culture. Variants include the older French Ouolof, Jollof, or Jolof, which now typically refers either to the Jolof Empire or to jollof rice, a common West African rice dish. Now-archaic forms include Volof and Olof. English is believed to have adopted some Wolof loanwords, such as banana, via Spanish or Portuguese, and nyam, used also in Spanish: 'ñam' as an onomatopoeia for eating or chewing, in several Caribbean English Creoles meaning "to eat" (... ()

Wolof is spoken in Mauritania, Senegal and The Gambia and 14 movies (between 1964 and 2021) with this language have been recorded so far. Most of these movies were shot in Senegal (12). Popular genres for Wolof movies are Drama (10), Comedy (2) and Documentary (2). Citation (2020), The Revolution Won't Be Televised (2016), Ceddo (1977), Boxumaleen!! (1991) and Hyenas (1992) are among the best known & most successful Wolof movies.


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Ceddo(1977)

2h | Drama
3.5/5 (with 12 votes)

When King Demba War sides with the Muslims, the Ceddo kidnap his daughter, Princess Dior Yacine, to protest their forcible conversion to Islam.

Directed by Ousmane Sembène - With Tabata Ndiaye

Sër Bi(2021)

21min | Drama

A young woman preparing for her marriage desperately and courageously journeys to erase her past.

Difficult(2020)

15min | Documentary
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Under Paris’ Eiffel Tower, undocumented Senegalese migrants sell souvenirs of the monument to support their families back home. Each day is a struggle through darkness in the City of Lights.

Boxumaleen!!(1991)

30min | Drama
2.5/5 (with 2 votes)

Four junkyard kids go into town looking for something to cure their hero, Grand Batche. On the way, they come across various symbols of society: the cop, the mayor, the postman, the madman, the artist...

Lamb(1964)

27min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

The traditional struggle, known as Lamb in Wolof, which recalls the Greco-Roman struggle, is a popular national sport in Senegal. It has special rules and very strict. Every spectator can bet on his favorite wrestler in a festive atmosphere. The Dakar Arena serves as a showcase for the battles in the film.

Baks(1974)

1h 30min

Idrissa is a rebellious little boy who drops out of school and joins a gang of hooligans that live on the beaches of Dakar. He gradually becomes detached from his family and adopted by his new friends who initiate him into the art of theft and the pleasures of yamba, marijuana.

Kodou(1971)

1h 40min | Drama

A young girl bolts away during a traditional but painful lip - tatooing ceremony, incurring the mockery of the villagers and the anger of her parents .

Directed by Ababacar Samb Makharam

Ousmane(2006)

2.1/5 (with 1 vote)

Dakar, Senegal. Ousmane, a 7 year old child, begs in the streets. He decides to write a letter to Santa Claus.

Directed by Dyana Gaye

The Revolution Won't Be Televised(2016)

1h 50min | Documentary
2.5/5 (with 2 votes)

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. Over several years, a stirring portrait emerged of a youth protest movement to whom independent observers were not the only ones to ascribe the role of "kingmaker" in the last elections. Rama Thiaw shows the rappers and their environment with an intimacy whose cinematographic finesse provides space and context for the thorny conflicts between music and politics, street and state.

Directed by Rama Thiaw

The Price of Forgiveness(2001)

1h 30min | Drama
2.5/5 (with 2 votes)

Mythical story about a fishing village on the south coast of Senegal. Two men in the village are both in love with the same beautiful girl.

Le Franc(1994)

46min | Comedy
3.0/5 (with 4 votes)

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...

Hyenas(1992)

1h 50min | Drama, Comedy
3.6/5 (with 13 votes)

A now-rich woman returns to her poor desert hometown to propose a deal to the populace: her fortune, in exchange for the death of the man who years earlier abandoned her and left her with his child.

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Mossane(1996)

1h 45min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 3 votes)

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.

Directed by Safi Faye

Citation(2020)

2h 31min | Drama, Thriller
3.8/5 (with 22 votes)

A bright student in Nigeria takes on the academic establishment when she reports a popular professor who tried to rape her. Based on real events.

Directed by Kunle Afolayan - With Jimmy Jean-Louis, Temi Otedola, Bukunmi Oluwashina, Adjetey Anang, Joke Silva, Ini Edo, ...