Senegal Movies

Maodo returns to his home in Nouakchott after a long trip. He resumes his old job as a traveling merchant to support his family. One night, the young...

This is a tragic story of Freedom, Despair, and then Revelation And you'll see it through the EYES of an Attacker or a Victim and then, you'll decide...

In this meditative and elegiac portrait, Senegalese filmmakers Khady and Mariama Sylla record the tales of their grandmother, a griot (storyteller)...

We follow the day of princess, who lives deep under the sea and is called by cauri shells to travel across time and space. On their journey they...

A portrait about the creative arts scene in Dakar, Senegal. Dakar booms with live and this energy can also be found in the creative, artistic and...

In Wolof, ‘Goor-Jigeen’ means male/female, by generalization ‘gay’ and akin to an insult. In Senegal, being homosexual is...

A group of boys discover that their village cannot afford the sacrificial cattle required for a traditional circumcision ceremony, so they decide to...

Two young women - two stories. A rapper in Dakar and a wrestler in southern Senegal: Toussa and Emodj. They both strive for victory and recognition...

Upon returning to Gandiol, his native Senegalese village, after 8 years of being a migrant in Spain, Mamadou seeks to be a positive force for his...

When Yacumba the Queen of Circles is attacked by the Man in Red, her Power Heart is Gone, she and her Royal subject Vangirai would travel through...

Documentary about an undertaker in Dakar, Senegal

Fagamou returns to the same hill that, decades ago, triggered her fear of snakes.

Researcher and audiovisual artist Janilda Bartolomeu presents a film that depicts the dreams of the Cape Verdean diaspora. It is a personal, poetic...

Senegalese often set up a temporary stage at a street corner. It is the Guew Bi, the dancing circle where a cheerful crowd dressed in beautiful...

This documentary explores the contemporary graffiti culture of Dakar, where painters, rappers and taggers have created a language of dissent and...

The Cry of the Sea is about the struggle of a mother, Yaye Bayam Diouf, who lost her only son in a dugout (or boat) for the Canary Islands. Today,...

Zirconium mining is affecting communities along Senegal's Grande Côte coastline. The Grande Côte Operations open-pit mine is cutting into...

Newsreel on President Senghor’s trip to Guadeloupe and Martinique. Report from the set of Ousmane Sembène’s Ceddo. Opening of...