Senegal Movies

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

An audiovisual poem about life, death, body and nature, totality, loneliness and connectedness.

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...

A Senegalese platoon of soldiers from the French Free Army return from combat and are temporarily held in a military encampment with barbed wire...

A young unemployed man fends off accusations of laziness and makes a home for his pregnant girlfriend who has been rejected by her family.

The traditional struggle, known as Lamb in Wolof, which recalls the Greco-Roman struggle, is a popular national sport in Senegal. It has special...

Meet Ousmane Sembene, the African freedom fighter who used stories as his weapon.

Andris and Gabriel are two young people from San Basilio de Palenque who travel to Senegal to fulfill their dream of stepping into the land of their...

Since 2009, Seiny alias Platoch, president of the Ladies' Turn association, has had a greater ambition than a simple career as a soccer player: to...

The French Michel and the Senegalese Malik, childhood friends now grown and both working in government, deal with rapid changes taking place as...

Mythical story about a fishing village on the south coast of Senegal. Two men in the village are both in love with the same beautiful girl.

In a near future, the villages of a Sub-Saharan area have all been deserted. Mad and disabled people as well as child soldiers are the only ones who...

Dembe died of an overdose in the distant metropolis of Dakar. His father refuses to bury him in the family graveyard in the village, believing that...

1980 short film by Ousmane William Mbaye

In his village, where bread is scarce, Ousseynou, a former fisherman, finds stability by selling stale bread. The opening of his sister-in-law's...

Yama, a single mother with an autistic son, Yadikoon, loses her job. Alone and without resources, how will she find work?

The film is a poignant personal memory quest that begins at the Bay of Diamant, in Martinique, and carries us to 3 continents, to shine light on what...

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...

Sindiely tells the story of a greedy father wishing to marry his daughter to a successful fabric merchant, despite her love for another young man....