Country:Senegal

Director:Ababacar Samb Makharam

Program:African Panorama

Summary:

The film presents an epic overview of the history of Senegal within the structure of a tale told by a griot with all of its musical and moral strengths intact.

Country:Senegal

Director:Moussa Toure

Program:African Panorama

Summary:

The film explores the history of Catalan and Malian communities, ethnic groups that have been living side by side for eight years in complete isolation from each other

Country:Senegal

Director:Musa Dieng Kala

Program:African Panorama

Summary:

Looking at the everyday lives of young adults in the area where he grew up, Kala offers a microscopic vision of a calamity affecting many sub-Saharan countries.

Country:Senegal

Director:Katy Ndiaye

Program:African Panorama

Summary:

In a society where tradition, religion and men prevail, three women express themselves with a surprising freedom about relations between men and woman.
Julio Silvao Tavares, Batuque (Cape Verde, 2006, 52 min.)
In 1462, the first African slaves were settled on the island of Cape Verde carrying with them the rhythms of what became the Batuque.

Country:Senegal

Director:Daouda Coulibaly

Program:African Panorama

Summary:

Coulibaly's beautiful photographed black and white film offers a challenging view of the last fifty years of African history

Country:Senegal

Director:Daouda Coulibaly

Program:African Panorama

Summary:

Country:Senegal

Director:Alain Gomis

Program:African Panorama

Summary:

This film has already gained classic status with its elegant self reflexive example of African cinema: seen through a child's attempts to understand the world ("When I shut my eyes, are people still there?").

Country:Senegal

Director:Sokhna Amar

Program:African Panorama

Summary:

For ten years she has kept it a secret that she was raped when she was young. In this short experimental documentary, a Senegalese woman tells her story. Tranquil images of the sea and a man in a small boat accompany her account. These images contrast starkly with what is told, but they are a fitting illustration. As a whole, the film is an urgent appeal to show respect for women.

Country:Senegal

Director:As Thiam

Program:African Panorama

Summary:

This is the first film by the elder Thiam who has been a writer and storyteller for years and longed to apply his energies to the film medium. Samba and his wife, Coumba are a blind couple. They have earned their living by singing in the streets of Dakar for 35 years. One day, a bus strike forces them to walk their way through the fields to get to the city. They sing, argue, and fight as all old couples do. In the quiet of a flourishing nature, they try to picture what the world looks like. Until at last they come across a magic whistle...

Country:Senegal

Director:Khady Sylla

Program:African Panorama

Summary:

Khady Sylla originally attempted to film a documentary about homeless psychiatric patients who roam the streets of Dakar, but the images were overexposed and unusable. But Sylla returned to the subject when she encountered Aminta Ngom who spends her days confined to the courtyard of her family’s house.