Senegal Movies

Senegalese jazz musician Alune Wade travels through West Africa and on to New Orleans to delve into jazz music's connection to African music and...

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...

The drought forces a peasant couple to go to the city, where they meet people's indifference. Only a trade unionist will offer them any help.

When he sneaks into a Simb—a festival where men dressed as lions dance to the rhythm of the sabars—Assane, a quiet young boy, sets in...

When Serigne Ibra finally decides to get married, he declares that his future bride must not only be a ravishing beauty, but also must not have any...

Newsreel of the third Festival of the Arts in the Nigerian city of Ife, launched in the city’s university. A celebration of the arts...

When the lions eat the rooster

Baba, a 20 year old Senegalese, dreams of becoming a soccer player in France.

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...

At dusk, the spirit world grows bolder. The darkness of the Dakar market where the solitary, slender figure of Pa Kong-Kong dwells, is considered no...

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...

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

Xalil and Yamis, married for several years, are experiencing a tragedy that has turned their lives upside down. The tragic loss of their only...

"Khady Diop directs Karteria, a gripping film. This is her first time behind the camera, yet she films with incredible skill. Radical shots and a...

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

To sail down the Niger River for over five hundred kilometers to meet the populations and their music, that is the challenge taken up by a dozen...

A lonely petrol station attendant summons a spirit to make his wishes come true, but finds himself confronted by something sinister.

A film by Teemour Diop Mambéty.

The film opens with a striking image: seven children in rags, aged 7 to 19, crawl out from under a Brazzaville market stall where they have spent the...