Himself
In 1972, Djibril Diop Mambety shoots "Touki Bouki." Mory and Anta are in love. Two young lovers share the same dream: to leave Dakar for Paris. At the fateful moment, Anta embarks. Mory stays alone on quay, unable to tear himself away from his land. Forty years later, "A Thousand Suns" investigates the personal and universal inheritance which represents "Touki Bouki." What has happened since? Magaye Niang, the hero of the movie, has never left Dakar. And today, the old cowboy wonders where Anta is, the love of his youth. Stories about family, exile and cinema meet between the sphere of intimacy and that of myth.
Lamine Diop
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.
Mory
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)