Senegal Movies

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,...

A rich businessman in Senegal is cursed with crippling erectile dysfunction upon the day of his marriage to his third wife; the only cure is brutal...

An in depth look at ‘FRAPP’, a collective of young Senegalese activists in Dakar, as the country prepares for its most decisive...

As World War II rages in Europe, a conflict arises between the French and the Diola-speaking tribe of Africa, prompting the village women to organize...

This is the final year of the Master’s program at the prestigious dance school École des Sables. Dancers from across Africa enter under...

Awa, a 15-year-old schoolgirl, is happily living her teenage years alongside her twin brother Adama who dreams of Europe. When their grandmother...

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...

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

The Ceddo people try to preserve their traditional African culture against the onslaught of Islam, Christianity, and the slave trade. When King Demba...

In 1972, Djibril Diop Mambety shoots "Touki Bouki." Mory and Anta are in love. Two young lovers share the same dream: to leave Dakar for Paris. At...

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...

A young fisherman dreams of motorizing his boat to make his work easier. His dream becomes reality, thanks to his courage and his determination but...

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

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.

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

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...

Everything started at the lighthouse bar, during Booz's concert. Ben, the trumpet player, dies onstage. The next day, his wife Esther places Ben's...

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...

While helping tend her family’s herd of cows in a northern region of Senegal, a 13-year-old girl faces changes that threaten her tight bond...

From école Normale Supérieure to the barricades of May 68 in Paris, to the jails of Gorée Island in Dakar where he died in 1973,...