Senegal Movies

A group of boys discover that their village cannot afford the sacrificial cattle required for a traditional circumcision ceremony, so they decide to...

The film opens with a striking image: seven children in rags, aged 7 to 19, crawl out from under a Brazzaville market stall where they have spent the...

Fagamou returns to the same hill that, decades ago, triggered her fear of snakes.

After two years absence, Alassane Diago comes back to his village in Senegal’s Futat region to try and understand how and why his mother has...

On the Senegal River, a fisherman makes a strange encounter. A film that addresses the essential relationship between man and his environment.

During the 1997 war in Congo DRC former Zaire, Francine, a 12-year-old Congolese girl, was recruited by the Rwandan army and its Ugandan ally, led by...

Part of a series of 4 films, Kinshasa (2018), Shenzhen (2019), New York (2019) and Dakar (2018), the project explores the relationship between ...

In the heart of colonial Senegal, moving to the devastating battlefields of Europe during WWII, Awa and Ibrahim are a young couple whose lives are...

Return To Podor is a documentary that follows Senegalese artist Baaba Maal and Mumford and Sons on their journey to the most remote music festival in...

Documentary about an undertaker in Dakar, Senegal

Why do so many Africans dream of going to Europe? Are they aware of the dangers and racism? Sunu Gaal (Our Cayuco) follows young people from Senegal...

Senegalese often set up a temporary stage at a street corner. It is the Guew Bi, the dancing circle where a cheerful crowd dressed in beautiful...

In a beach town on the coast of Senegal sits a basketball academy attended by the most promising players in Africa. Through the eyes of NBA Academy...

Maodo returns to his home in Nouakchott after a long trip. He resumes his old job as a traveling merchant to support his family. One night, the young...

In April 2006, a small boat was found drifting aimlessly along the eastern coast of Barbados. Local fishermen left the boat alone for many weeks,...

In this meditative and elegiac portrait, Senegalese filmmakers Khady and Mariama Sylla record the tales of their grandmother, a griot (storyteller)...