Senegalese
see all genres ›When West Africa’s Senegal won independence from France in 1960, its cinema awoke, bringing with it the continent's first famous director, Ousmane Sembene, often called "the father of African film." Production today remains limited, with features often financed in part by foreign investors.
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Tall as the Baobab Tree
In a rural Senegalese village poised at the outer edge of the modern world, a teenage girl hatches a secret plan to rescue her eleven-year-old sister from an arranged marriage. A powerful voice from Africa's young generation, TALL AS THE BAOBAB TREE poignantly depicts a family...Watch Movie
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7915km
A motor-sports spectacle that kicks up plenty of dust. On the trail of the 2007 Dakar Rallye (the final year of the race), 7915KM undertakes a search, along the way encountering the variety to be found in Africa’s present in Morocco, Sahrawi Republic, Mauritania, Mali and Senegal. 7915KM...Watch Movie
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Youssou N'Dour: I Bring What I Love
YOUSSOU N'DOUR: I BRING WHAT I LOVE is a gorgeously photographed, music infused cinematic portrait of world famous Senegalese pop sensation Youssou N'Dour. Best known in the West for his collaborations with Bono and Peter Gabriel, N'Dour is one of the most beloved musicians in...Watch Movie
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The Pirogue
In Moussa Toure's powerful epic fiction film, a group of thirty men sail to Europe in a pirogue, facing the sea - and the possibility of never reaching their destination - in exchange for the myth of a better life in Europe. Baye Laye is the captain of a fishing pirogue. Like many of his...Watch Movie
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Le jardin d'Ewald
The attempt of Senegalese people to outwit one of the greatest mass murderers of our time. Silently, insidiously and always with full force, the overpowering villain, which the Senegalese have to oppose year after year carries the name 'drought.' Drought and the disappearance...Watch Movie
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Return to Goree
A musical road movie, RETURN TO GOREE follows Senegalese singer Youssou N'Dour's historical journey tracing the trail left by slaves and the jazz music they created. Youssou N'Dour's challenge is to bring back to Africa a jazz repertoire of his own songs to perform a concert in Goree, the island...Watch Movie
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Waalo Fendo
Milan, like Paris or Stuttgart, and like many other European cities, is the theater of the drama of immigration. Demba reconstructs his story and that of his brother Yaro, both Senegalese immigrants in Italy, in a long and fragmentary flashback that begins with Yaro’s murder and recounts their...Watch Movie
