Senegal Movies

As the founder of folk music in Senegal, Seydina Insa Wade had his hour of glory in the 1970s. After his departure for France in the 1980s, where he...

Issa cherishes those moments when he can lie on his bed daydreaming. But as day breaks, work beckons, and he ventures out into the noisy streets of...

Following the steps of Oumar Seye, first black African professional surfer, Cherif, Paké, Assane and Mbabou, childhood friends from Ngor...

Pape and Seydi are two young men who find purpose and community in the ocean, choosing a different path than the perilous journeys many peers take in...

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...

A mother goes to the hospital to get treatment for her sick baby, but is repeatedly referred elsewhere.

In a beach town on the coast of Senegal sits a basketball academy attended by the most promising players in Africa. Through the eyes of NBA Academy...

When the lions eat the rooster

Ken and Jeeli are two 12-year-old children. Their greatest desire is to explore the city. So they decide to run away from the island of Gorée,...

The Bamako Express takes more than 36 hours to connect Dakar to Bamako, about 1200 kilometers. During this crossing from West to East, multiple...

From London to Paris, Marseille to finish in Dakar, we start looking for various African neighborhood in order to film various types and techniques...

From école Normale Supérieure to the barricades of May 68 in Paris, to the jails of Gorée Island in Dakar where he died in 1973,...

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

Why do so many Africans dream of going to Europe? Are they aware of the dangers and racism? Sunu Gaal (Our Cayuco) follows young people from Senegal...