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- A black girl from Senegal becomes a servant in France.
- In 2003, a trio of mercenaries escaping a coup in Guinea-Bissau take refuge in a hidden region on the Saloum river of Senegal. But something from beyond the grave awaits them there.
- Mory, a cowherd, and Anta, a university student, try to make money in order to go to Paris and leave their boring past behind.
- Hawa, a young girl who lives alone with her terminally ill grandmother. When she learns that Michelle Obama is visiting Paris, Hawa has the crazy idea of being adopted by this personality, whom she admires more than anything...
- A money order from a relative in Paris throws the life of a Senegalese family man out of order. He deals with corruption, greed, problematic family members, the locals and the changing from his traditional way of living to a more modern one.
- A corrupt politician is cursed with impotence on the night of his third wedding after embezzling 100 tons of rice.
- When a woman shelters a group of girls from suffering female genital mutilation, she starts a conflict that tears her village apart.
- In protest of forced conversion to Islam, the Ceddo (outsiders) kidnap King Demba War's daughter Princess Dior Yacine and hold her hostage.
- Dramaan is the most popular man in Colobane, but when a woman from his past, now exorbitantly wealthy, returns to the town, things begin to change.
- In this semi-autobiographical film, black soldiers help to defend France, but are detained in prison camp before being repatriated home.
- As World War II is going on in Europe, a conflict arises between the French and the Diola-speaking tribe of Africa, prompting the village women to organize their men to sit beneath a tree to pray.
- Americo-Senegalese Tabara suffers from nightmares, in which an evil creature taunts her. After unsuccessful therapy, Tabara decides to travel to Senegal to seek mystical treatment. She will discover dark secrets about her lineage.
- Burial of a Christian political activist in a Muslim cemetary forces a conflict imbued with religious fervor. A satiric portrayal of religion and politics, sometimes humorous, sometimes deadly serious.
- Boron Sarret is arguably the first film made by a black African. It illustrates poverty in Senegal, particularly for the working man.
- A forty-year-old woman refuses to give into the stigma of unwed motherhood and climbs the ladder of success in a male dominated field.
- Two cops with very different methods, solving mysterious murder cases surrounded by black magic.
- Idrissa, civil servant, lives in the suburbs of Dakar, Senegal. Due to IMF budgetary restriction measures he loses his job. When his wages dry up, he is forced to live at the expense of his wife. He strives to regain his manly pride.
- A girl sells copies of Soleil, the government paper.
- Like every Carmen, Karmen Geï is about the conflict between infinite desire for freedom and the laws, conventions, languages, the human limitations which constrain that desire.
- Meet Ousmane Sembene, the African freedom fighter who used stories as his weapon.
- Moussa is instructed by the courts to open an addiction treatment centre on pain of imprisonment if unsuccessful and to include his son among the detainees.
- A fight between an Imam and his powerful brother over their children's marriage. At stake: how a small community slowly drifts towards extremism.
- Ngor is a young man living in a Senegalese village who wishes to marry Columba. Ongoing drought in the village has affected its crop of groundnuts and as a result, Ngor cannot afford the bride price for Columba.
- This bittersweet, coming of age story is a kind of African equivalent of George Lucas' American Graffiti, Spike Lee's Crooklyn or Godard's Masculin/Feminin.
- Tells the story of an idealistic young politician's rise and fall. Daam, a well-intentioned but vacillating European-trained politician must choose between two social paradigms exemplified by his two wives. The first, Gagnesiri, is the village beauty, who waits patiently for Daam. Unfortunately, they are unable to conceive a child, so Daam takes European-educated Kiné, who is eager to get ahead by marrying a politician. Daam becomes involved in a shady business deal with Président, a local businessman; when the details are made public, he is forced out in disgrace.
- 1960 marked the end of the colonial empires across the African continent. France disappeared from the map, leaving behind the CFA Franc, a colonial creation, which is the name of the currency that still circulates in almost all of its former territories south of the Sahara. How does it come, those countries, once they regained their freedom, never denounced this strange legacy? The film delves into a little-known story that started in the 19th century and continues to the present time.
- The video pitch is a remake of a film extract from Shock Corridor by Sam Fuller in 1963. In this extract a young black man is seen praising the 'KKK'. Colors in the video (B&W), are like a 'recipient' where we can find, put, different colors so peoples, communities. My intention through this work is to trigger some reflection about ' Intercommunity racism ', without crediting this work with moralizing. I trying not to be in the expected places, in front of some reality, situation, but trigger some debate by suggesting a different point of view, some other hypothesis.
- A Senegalese boy arrives in Italy in search of fortune, with the desire to work in the fashion world. But life throws in some tragicomic situations.
- Seydou, 10-year-old, sees the presidential palace for the first time and learns from his father that only the best students live there. Seydou decided to devote his entire life to his studies and to stay away from his closest friends. He torn between the mad desire to play with his friends and the burning desire to become president.
- The film follows 3 childhood friends, Omar, Aly and Badou now living as adults during the COVID-19 pandemic. They managed to remain friends for years until deceit and jealousy brings strife into their bond.
- Sarcastic look at Senegal's capital following the adventures of a somewhat immoral street urchin.
- At the height of her professional career, Aby 32, marries 25 year old Bachir, a serial seducer (predator) who loves that women take care of him. She believes she is living the true love when her life slips into a descent into hell, she discovers the double life of her husband.
- The hilarious adventures of the worlds WORST assassins. Set what seems a simple hit on an old lady after her greedy grand-daughter decides she wants all of her money, the intrepid trio of assassins set off on what should be a simple job. But what ensues is anything but simple...in-fact some would call it chaotic.
- 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 an arranged marriage.
- The pregnancy of a young girl scandalizes her community.
- Back in Gandiol, his native village in Senegal, after spending eight years as an immigrant in Spain, Mamadou is committed to being a positive force in his community. With his wife Laura, a Spanish migrant in Senegal, and under the benevolent gaze of Mamadou's mother Yaaye Khadi, they set about building with their community the "active utopia" expressed in the book "3052" that Mamadou wrote during his journey. The film accompanies them on this new quest, to discover their struggles, and the impact of these choices on their lives, those of their families, the young people of the village, and all those dream chasers.
- Drama based around the lives of five very different women living in contemporary Dakar.
- A somewhat-humorous look at the city of Dakar, its people, architecture, politics, social behavior, and even the white French tourists, and especially the influence of France's culture and its contrast with the indigenous culture of Senegal pre-colonization but still present in Dakar.
- In Africa, small jobs survive as resistance to the invasion of consumer goods. In compiling five shorts directed by the Senegalese documentary filmmaker, the film details the stages of making handicrafts from garbage dumped at landfills.