Senegal Movies

1980 short film by Ousmane William Mbaye

Entrusted by his father to a group of gold-miners, an albino child embodies all of their hopes.

Americo-Senegalese Tabara suffers from nightmares, in which an evil creature taunts her. After unsuccessful therapy, Tabara decides to travel to...

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...

This is the story of time passing, at the slow pace of Ousmane Sow, and of time rushing by, from the birth of a work to its unveiling one spring day...

Bisagras is a film that triangulates the journey of African slaves to America and draws a line that goes through my brown skin.

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

Recording a 24-hour period throughout every country in the world, we explore a greater diversity of perspectives than ever seen before on screen. We...

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....

A satire about young African men arriving in the district of Saint Germain des Prés in Paris during the 70s.

Kipou is the only friend of 11-year-old Aïssatou. He is also a kitten who keeps her company while she sells products for her mother in front of...

From the coast of Gorée, director Arma Gòo embarks on the "Kumba Kastel", with a troupe of the island's best storytellers, dancers,...

In a rural African village poised at the outer edge of the modern world, a teenage girl hatches a secret plan to rescue her 11-year-old sister from...

While on vacation in Bordeaux, four-year-old Lili and her brothers, aged nine and twenty, are left to fend for themselves when their flamboyant...

This film follows Maria Esther, Jose Agrippino's partner, as she falls into a trance; the film takes place in the day-to-day setting of a room...

Once upon a time there was a morning, noon, evening and night when the inseparable shadows of man told us about memory... Interview with Ousmane Sow,...

This film is widely regarded as the first film made by an African south of the Sahara. Labelled an “ethnological documentary in reverse,”...

In 2013, former Chadian dictator Hissein Habré’s arrest in Senegal marked the end of a long combat for the survivors of his regime. ...