Senegal Movies

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

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

Dakar, Senegal. Ousmane, a 7 year old child, begs in the streets. He decides to write a letter to Santa Claus.

Bizet's Carmen gets a modern adaptation. Seducting, provocating, sensual. All the ingredients for a perfect drama. With her charm, Karmen gets out of...

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

Three mercenaries extracting a druglord out of Guinea-Bissau are forced to hide in the mystical region of Saloum, Senegal.

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

Approaching the rainy season, Yaadikoone, a nine-year-old boy, accidentally brokes his house's roof with his soccer ball. Yaadi decides to fix...

After his mother develops cancer from dépigmentation, Khalilou fights toxic beauty standards. Disguised as Leila, he enters the "Miss...

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,...

Taxi Sister is a documentary about Boury, a female taxi driver in Dakar, Senegal. As a woman behind the wheel she leads a busy life filled with...

Together with her son Fodé, Mareme has recently moved to the suburbs of Dakar, where she does everything she can to fit in. One evening, her...

With unprecedented access and dynamic 16mm cinematography, Touba reveals a different face of Islam by chronicling Sufi Muslims’ annual...

This is the last year of master’s degree at the prestigious dance school "Ecole des Sables", founded in Senegal and directed by choreographer...

Eager to find a better life abroad, a Senegalese woman becomes a mere governess to a family in southern France, suffering from discrimination and...

Four junkyard kids go into town looking for something to cure their hero, Grand Batche. On the way, they come across various symbols of society: the...

Follows the story of two young boys and their adventure through the streets of Africa.

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...

Two young Senegalese boys are determined to see one last film at the town movie theater before it closes forever. When they fall short of their goal,...