Oncle Baak
Mossane, una joven adolescente de 14 años, es deseada por todos los hombres de su poblado, pero ella ama a Fara, un joven estudiante que no puede pagar su dote. Los padres de Mossane quieren que se case con el pudiente Diogaye, quien puede pagar las deudas y mantener a la familia.
El Hadj Gora
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.
Burial of a Christian political activist in a Muslim cemetary forces a conflict imbued with religious fervor.
A 53-year-old civil servant, who has been refused promotion, finds himself forced to resume studies with the help of his son in order to obtain the necessary diploma.
To inspire striking workers, the griot tells of a legendary prince, Dieri Dior Ndella, who sacrificed his life during colonialism, and Koura Thiaw, an entertainer who took up the cause of oppressed domestics in the 1940s, both becoming heroes to their people. Though this strangely lyrical film deals with a contemporary crisis, critic Roy Armes notes that "the film travels exuberantly through time to capture situations linked only by their common concern with the concepts of honor and dignity, the importance of keeping one's word and not being bought or corrupted.
Sérigne moussa
This film presents a harsh critique of the Koranic teaching through the tragic story of a small talibé, student of a beggar.
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.
