Touki Bouki

Touki Bouki

Mory, a cowherd, and Anta, a university student, try to make money in order to go to Paris and leave their boring past behind.

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Hyenas

Hyenas

A now-rich woman returns to her poor desert hometown to propose a deal to the populace: her fortune, in exchange for the death of the man who years...

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The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun

The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun

A young girl with a physical disability arrives in Dakar and challenges the convention of boys selling newspapers on the street.

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Le Franc

Le Franc

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

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City of Contrasts

City of Contrasts

A fictional documentary that portrays the city of Dakar, Senegal, as we hear the conversation between a Senegalese man (the director, Djibril Diop...

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Badou Boy

Badou Boy

Badou Boy, a cheeky young man, travels through the streets of Dakar on the city buses and experiences adventures.

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The Death Knell

The Death Knell

At the beginning of the 1960s, in Salisbury (now Harare), in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), the government of Ian Smith hanged three black...

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Fight in Vain

Fight in Vain

Paul lives in Africa. He leads an honest and calm existence. Until the day when he finds his friend Frankovich dead.

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The Making of Yaaba

The Making of Yaaba

Djibril Diop Mambéty followed and filmed the shooting of Yaaba, Idrissa Ouédraogo's second feature film. A documentary full of humorous anecdotes...

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