Joe Ouakam (2012)

A lo largo de la costa atlántica, una torre futurista que pronto será inaugurada se cierne sobre un suburbio de Dakar. Ada, de 17 años, está enamorada de Souleimane, un joven trabajador de la construcción. Pero ella ha sido prometida a otro hombre. Una noche, Souleimane y sus compañeros desaparecen en el mar. Poco después, regresan para atormentar a su antiguo vecindario tomando posesión de las novias que dejaron atrás. Algunos de los trabajadores han venido reclamando venganza y amenazan con quemar la torre si el desarrollador no paga sus salarios. Pero Souleiman ha regresado por Ada, para que puedan estar juntos por última vez.

When Lena and Ulli start the engine of their old Land Rover, Lady Terés, they have a plan: to drive from Hamburg to South Africa in six months. What they don't know yet is that they won't ever get there. Two totally different characters, jammed together in two square meters of space for almost two years, they experience what it really means to travel: leaving your comfort zone for good.

Ben Singer (Matthew Broderick) es un cantante folk fracasado, un porrero compulsivo, un padre de fin de semana, un tipo que solo disfruta jugando al ajedrez con su compañero de piso Ibu (Michael K. Williams); pero, sobre todo, es un hombre muy pesimista, lo que queda de manifiesto cuando Ibu se pone muy enfermo. Menos mal que la hermana de Ibu (Sanaa Lathan) se muda al piso y, además de enseñarle qué es el amor, le hace comprender que su pesimismo no es más que una perspectiva vital errónea.

A companion piece to Pelourinho: They Don’t Really Care About Us (NYFF57), King of Sanwi continues Akosua Adoma Owusu’s exploration of Michael Jackson as a global pop icon. Here, Michael’s long affinity with the African continent—from the Jackson 5’s arrival in Senegal in 1974 to Michael’s coronation as an Ivorian king in 1992—is captured in vibrant, fuzzy archival video, made visceral by Owusu’s funky audiovisual collage and richly material direct animation effects.

At Ngay Ngay, a village in northern Senegal, there are real natural evaporative basins in which depending on the year large or small quantities of sea salt dry out. Located 15 kilometres from Saint-Louis, the village is living around a complex community organisation: men divide the salt fields into plots, and women are those who harvest. In the end, the men receive a share of the crop, while women are those who took great pains over the harvesting.

The rules are simple in Senegalese wrestling: First man down, loses. The sport derives from ritual manhood trials and has developed into a national sport with packed stadiums and huge prizes. Today, the fight is supplemented with bare knuckle boxing but without any protection. The 22­-year-­old cattle herder Ndoff has been chosen to compete in an annual talent event in Dakar, and faces a possible breakthrough as a pro wrestler. LAAMB is the story of a sport filled with myths and extreme voodoo rituals, and a modern tale about fighting one’s way out of poverty.

Two women and two men tell their stories of exile caused by being lesbian, transgender, bisexual and gay.

Mory, un vaquero que conduce una moto decorada con cuernos de vaca, y Anta, una estudiante, se conocieron en Dakar. Se sienten marginados, están hartos de Senegal y de África, por lo que sueñan con irse a París. Recurren a diversas estratagemas para conseguir dinero. Finalmente, Mory roba dinero y ropa a un rico que le lleva a su casa. Por fin pueden comprar los pasajes de barco para irse a París... Una iniciativa de la World Cinema Foundation – presidida por Martin Scorsese Coordinada por Cecilia Cenciarelli (Cineteca di Bologna) Ejecutada por Gian Luca Farinelli (laboratoire L’Immagine Ritrovata) "...un poema cinematográfico, hecho con una energía cruda y salvaje..." (Martin Scorsese)

A penniless, fast-thinking musician buys a lottery ticket which he glues to his back door, in hopes of eventually retrieving his instrument from his exasperating landlady. —but the ticket wins...

Cortometraje de la película coral 'En el mundo a cada rato' (2007) que narra la historia de Binta y su padre, un humilde pescador que, preocupado por el progreso de la humanidad, está empeñado en llevar a cabo algo que se le ha ocurrido. Cortometraje nominado al Oscar al Mejor Cortometraje en 2007.

A Senegalese platoon of soldiers from the French Free Army are returned from combat in France and held for a temporary time in a military encampment with barbed wire fences and guard towers in the desert. Among their numbers are Sergeant Diatta, the charismatic leader of the troop who was educated in Paris and has a French wife and child, and Pays, a Senegalese soldier left in a state of shock from the war and concentration camps and who can only speak in guttural screams and grunts.

Bizet's Carmen gets a modern adaptation. Seducting, provocating, sensual. All the ingredients for a perfect drama. With her charm, Karmen gets out of many situations.

Iranian Iradj Azimi directed this French historical drama re-creating events depicted in the famous 1819 painting The Raft of the Medusa by Jean Louis Andre Theodore Gericault (1791-1824). The ill-fated voyage of the frigate Medusa begins when it departs Rochefort for Senegal in 1816. After striking a sandbar off the African coast, 150 civilians row safely to shore, but Captain Chaumareys (Jean Yanne) orders 140 soldiers and sailors onto a raft (minus supplies) and has it cut loose. Only 14 survive from the 140, creating a scandal back in France. Gericault (Laurent Terzieff) later talks to three of the survivors while researching his painting. Work on this film began in 1987, but sets destroyed by Hurricane Hugo caused delays, so the film was not completed until 1990. However, it then remained undistributed until an incident in which writer-director Azimi slashed his wrists in front of French Ministry of Culture officials.

El Hadj is studying in Paris. He is one of the young Senegalese men who have come to Paris since the French colony became independent to get a good education so that he can serve his fatherland on his return. Unexpectedly he is suddenly confronted by a problem with his residence papers, just because he has arranged an extension too late. His pleasant life filled with good prospects has gone in one fell swoop. He faces a dilemma. He can stay illegally in France, the country where he feels at home, where he has his friends, has fallen in love and can drink water from the tap. Or he can return (without graduating) to the 3rd-world country of Senegal to use the knowledge he has acquired. It is not only a practical choice. It comes down to the question of who he is, who he thought he could be.

A tale of growing up in 1960s Senegal. Bacc narrates his early years of living in Popenguine, a town divided by culture and musical tastes.

This film presents a harsh critique of the Koranic teaching through the tragic story of a small talibé, student of a beggar.

Soriba Samb (Oumar Diop Makena) is a Senegalese who has just received a much sought after internship to study filmmaking in Paris. In this story, Soriba heads to Paris, accompanied by the five-year old son of a friend who he believes to be still living in Paris. On arrival he struggles to find the boy’s father. In addition to coping with his new internship, Soriba has to also spend time tracking down the boy’s father ‘Issa’. Soriba eventually finds ‘Issa’ but only to discover that he is running a prostitution ring and actually has no intention of leaving Paris. This is deeply disturbing to Soriba as the fate of the young boy now hangs squarely in the balance. Soriba sets out to change this and invokes the spirits of his ancestors to transform ‘Issa’s’ wayward living so he can care for his son and return to Senegal.

Eugenie was born and raised in Senegal. But since her love was not accepted, she escaped to Germany in order to get asylum there.