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Films from the country "senegal", sorted by revenue
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The Making of Yaaba (1989)
, 34minutesDirected by Djibril Diop Mambety
Origin Senegal
Genres Documentary
Themes Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry
Actors Idrissa Ouédraogo
Parlons Grand-mère est un court métrage documentaire sénégalais de 1989. Djibril Diop Mambéty a suivi et filmé le tournage de Yaaba, le deuxième long métrage d'Idrissa Ouédraogo. Un documentaire bourré d'anecdotes humoristiques sur les dangers du tournage de films au Burkina Faso.
Ceddo (1977)
, 2hDirected by Ousmane Sembène
Origin Senegal
Genres Drama
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about slavery, Films about religion, Films about Islam
Actors Ousmane Sembène
In Senegal, sometime after the establishment of a European presence in the area but before the imposition of direct French colonial administration, the Ceddo ("commoners") try to preserve their traditional culture against the onslaught of Islam, Christianity, and the slave trade. When local king Demba War sides with the Muslims, the Ceddo abduct his daughter, Dior Yacine, to protest their forced conversion to Islam. After trying to rescue the princess, various heirs to the throne are killed, and Demba War is killed during the night. Eventually the kidnappers are killed and Dior Yacine is brought back to the village to confront the imam, just as all the villagers are being given Muslim names.
Letter from My Village (1976)
Directed by Safi Faye
Origin Senegal
Genres Drama, Documentary
Actors Safi Faye
Ngor is a young man living in a Senegalese village who wishes to marry Columba. Ongoing drought in the village has affected its crop of groundnuts and as a result, Ngor cannot afford the bride price for Columba. He goes to Senegal's capital city, Dakar, to try to earn more money and is exploited there. He returns to the villagers and shares his experiences of the city with the other men. The story, which shows the daily lives of the villagers, is told in the form of a letter to a friend from a villager, voiced by Faye.
Touki Bouki (1973)
, 1h35Directed by Djibril Diop Mambety
Origin Senegal
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Aminata Fall "Garmi", Joséphine Baker
Mory, a charismatic cowherd who drives a motorcycle mounted with a bull-horned skull, and Anta, a female student, meet in Dakar. Alienated and tired of life in Senegal, they dream of going to Paris and come up with different schemes to raise money for the trip. Mory eventually contrives to steal the money, and much clothing, from the household of a wealthy homosexual while the latter is taking a shower. Anta and Mory can finally buy tickets for the ship to France. But when Anta boards the ship in the Port of Dakar, Mory, poised on the gangplank behind her, is suddenly seized by an inability to leave his roots, and he runs away madly to find his bull-horned motorcycle, only to see that it has been ruined in a crash that nearly killed the rider who had taken it. The ship sails away with Anta but not Mory while the hauntingly melodious song "Love Is Fleeting, But Rejection Lasts a Lifetime" is sung and Mory sits next to his hat on the ground, staring disconsolately at his wrecked motorcycle. The film is written in French and Wolof, with English subtitles.
Emitaï (1971)
, 1h43Directed by Ousmane Sembène
Origin Senegal
Genres Drama
Actors Mbissine Thérèse Diop
En 1942 en Casamance, dans le Sud du Sénégal, l'administration pétainiste cède le pouvoir aux hommes du Général de Gaulle. L'armée décide de réquisitionner des vivres dans le petit village de Efock. Les villageois refusent de donner le riz, leur unique moyen de subsistance. Les femmes décident de le cacher. La plupart des hommes sont partis combattre en France, les anciens espèrent l'intervention du dieu du Tonnerre, Emitaï. La répression et le massacre des innocents commencent.
Badou Boy (1970)
, 56minutesDirected by Djibril Diop Mambety
Origin Senegal
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films set in Africa
A sarcastic look at Senegal's capital that followed the adventures of what the director described as a "somewhat immoral street urchin who is very much like myself". The contest pits the non-conformist individual against an absurdly caricatured policeman who pursues the protagonist through comedically improbable scenarios. Badou Boy celebrates an urban subculture while parodying the state.
The Wagoner (1963)
, 20minutesDirected by Ousmane Sembène
Origin Senegal
Genres Drama
Themes Films set in Africa
Senegalese director Ousmane Sembène's Borom Saret tells the story of a poor man trying to make a living as a cart driver in Dakar.
Tall as the Baobab Tree (2012)
, 1h22Origin Senegal
Genres Drama, Adventure
Coumba est la première fille à quitter son village isolé en Afrique, pour faire ses études dans une grande ville. Lorsque soudain survient un accident qui menace la survie de sa famille. Le père de Coumba décide alors d'imposer à Debo, sa petite sœur de 11 ans, un mariage forcé. Dans un espoir d'un avenir meilleur, Coumba prépare un plan secret pour la sauver du sort qu'on lui impose.
Yoole, The Sacrifice (2010)
, 1h15Origin Senegal
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about immigration, Documentary films about law, Documentaire sur une personnalité
The albatross smiled from the sky/ These were the last souls sacrificed to the sea / Years later, their bodies reached the shore. A young illegal immigrant writes to his mother. He tells her of the torments he and his friends endured during weeks after they attacked the great blue. They departed from Senegal towards Spain in an open boat with 54 souls aboard, but the boat started to drift towards the American continent. It reached Barbados with only eleven passengers, all dead.
Rêve piégé (2009)
, 1h16Origin Senegal
Themes La précarité, L'émigration
Chike, jeune Nigérian, quitte son pays pour atteindre l’Europe en passant par le Sénégal. À Dakar, il rencontre Bola, un compatriote qui promet de l’aider à traverser. Le rêve vire au cauchemar quand Chike est dépouillé par son nouvel ami, le forçant à emprunter le chemin qu’il voulait à tout prix éviter, celui qui colle à la peau de tant de Nigérians en exil : il entre dans un gang et devient dealer. Son histoire d’amour naissante avec Amy, une belle Sénégalaise, va le forcer à faire des choix.
Semillas que el mar arrastra (2008)
, 52minutesOrigin Senegal
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about immigration
In Africa there are many children that dream of crossing the sea, leaving their families and homes behind, believing that they'll have a real chance on the other side. Those that manage to make the crossing soon discover that reality is far from what they had imagined when they find themselves in the internment centers. This documentary lends its voice to those under age immigrants that long for a better life.
Mère-Bi (2008)
, 55minutesOrigin Senegal
Genres Documentary
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about writers, Feminist films, Films about journalists, Politique, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentary films about politics, Political films
Née à Sokone en 1926, Annette Mbaye d’Erneville, la mère du réalisateur William Mbaye, fut la première journaliste du Sénégal. Elle s’est très tôt sentie concernée par le développement de son pays. Militante de la première heure pour la cause de l'émancipation des femmes, elle est à la fois une pionnière et une anti conformiste. Elle a partagé sa vie entre la France, où elle a étudié, et le Sénégal, où elle est retournée en 1957, pressentant que le temps de l’Indépendance était arrivé.
Lettre à Senghor (1997)
, 49minutesDirected by Samba Félix Ndiaye
Origin Senegal
Genres Documentary
Themes Documentaire sur une personnalité
Qui était Léopold Sédar Senghor ? Parce qu'il a hanté la jeunesse du cinéaste, parce qu’il a fait de la négritude une affaire d'État, parce qu'il a toujours défendu la langue française, le dirigeant et penseur sénégalais a donné à Samba Félix Ndiaye l’envie de percer ses secrets. Pour cela, le réalisateur a réveillé ses souvenirs et ceux de ses proches et il a interviewé les habitants du village natal de Léopold Sedar Senghor. Finalement, le film est une évocation poétique et originale d’une figure incontournable de l’Afrique du XX siècle.
Waiting for Men (2007)
, 56minutesOrigin Senegal
Genres Documentary
Themes Films set in Africa, Documentary films about the visual arts, Documentaire sur une personnalité
Oualata, la ville rouge à l’extrême est du désert mauritanien. Dans cet îlot, éphémère rempart contre les sables, trois femmes pratiquent la peinture traditionnelle en décorant les murs des maisons de la ville. Dans une société apparemment dominée par la tradition, la religion et les hommes, ces femmes s’expriment avec une surprenante liberté sur leur manière de percevoir la relation entre les hommes et les femmes.