23 Films & TV Shows Set In Senegal
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Adú
🇪🇸 Spain 🇲🇦 Morocco 🇨🇲 Cameroon 🇲🇷 Mauritania 🇸🇳 SenegalIn a desperate attempt to reach Europe and crouched before an airstrip in Cameroon, a six-year-old boy and his older sister wait to sneak into the holds of an airplane. Not too far away, an environmental activist contemplates the terrible image of an elephant, dead and fangless. Not only do you have to fight against poaching, but you will also have to meet the problems of your newly arrived daughter from Spain. Thousands of kilometers to the north, in Melilla, a group of civil guards prepare to face the furious crowd of sub-Saharan people who have begun the assault on the fence. Three stories linked by a central theme, in which none of its protagonists know that their destinies are doomed to cross and that their lives will no longer be the same.
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Atlantics
🇸🇳 SenegalEvery love story is a ghost story — Along the Atlantic coast, a soon-to-be-inaugurated futuristic tower looms over a suburb of Dakar. Ada, 17, is in love with Souleiman, a young construction worker. But she has been promised to another man. One night, Souleiman and his co-workers leave the country by sea, in hope of a better future. Several days later, a fire ruins Ada’s wedding and a mysterious fever starts to spread. Little does Ada know that Souleiman has returned.
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Yao
🇸🇳 SenegalFrom his village in northern Senegal, Yao is a 13-year-old boy ready to do anything to meet his hero: Seydou Tall, a famous French actor. Invited to Dakar to promote his new book, the latter goes to his country of origin for the first time. To fulfill his dream, the young Yao organizes his fugue and brave 387 kilometers alone to the capital. Touched by this child, the actor decides to flee his obligations and to accompany him home. But on the dusty and uncertain roads of Senegal, Seydou understands that while rolling towards the village of the child, it also rolls towards its roots.
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Ramata
🇸🇳 SenegalRamata is a spellbindingly beautiful woman in her fifties. She has been married for thirty years now to Matar Samb, a very rich man, a former prosecutor who is now Minister of Justice. They live in Les Almadies, an elegant neighborhood of Dakar. Ngor Ndong is twenty-five. He is young, strong, mysterious and homeless. He is an occasional petty crook, known to the police. One evening, in a taxi that Ngor Ndong just happens to be driving, Ramata, reticent at first, finally agrees to follow this young man half her age to the Copacabana, a dive in the seediest part of Dakar.
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Running the Sahara
🇪🇬 Egypt 🇱🇾 Libya 🇲🇱 Mali 🇲🇷 Mauritania 🇳🇪 Niger 🇸🇳 SenegalThree men attempt to become the first humans to run coast to coast across the Sahara Desert — A small film crew tracks three extreme runners across the Sahara desert, capturing their incredible journey on camera, recording this landmark moment in athleticism, in humanitarianism, and in history. The "Running the Sahara" expedition is a documentary film narrated by Academy Award™-winner Matt Damon and directed by Academy Award™-winner James Moll. The "Running the Sahara" documentary explores the physical and emotional impact of this tremendous test of strength and determination. The film's narrative follows the runners on their quest, each step toward the finish line building in great anticipation of answering the question: Can this amazing human feat truly be possible?
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Black
🇸🇳 SenegalA Senegalese bank-robber born and raised in France is getting over a disastrous heist. As he considers going straight, his cousin calls him from Dakar with an easy opportunity.
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Lili et le baobab
🇸🇳 SenegalAged 33, Lili goes to Africa for the first time in her life, to Agnam, a Sahelian village in the northeast of Senegal.
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L'appel des arènes
🇸🇳 SenegalLove story set among wrestlers in Senegal.
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Moolaadé
🇧🇫 Burkina Faso 🇸🇳 SenegalWhen a woman shelters a group of girls from suffering female genital mutilation, she starts a conflict that tears her village apart.
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Little Light
🇸🇳 SenegalFatima is a little girl of eight years. By opening and closing the refrigerator, she wonders if the light stays on when the door closes...
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Faat Kiné
🇸🇳 SenegalA forty-year-old woman refuses to give into the stigma of unwed motherhood and climbs the ladder of success in a male dominated field.
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Tableau Ferraille
🇸🇳 SenegalTells 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.
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Women with Eyes Open
🇧🇫 Burkina Faso 🇧🇯 Benin 🇲🇱 Mali 🇸🇳 Senegal The 1990sPortraits of contemporary African women from four West African nations: Burkina Faso, Mali, Senegal and Benin.
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Coup de Torchon
Africa - General 🇸🇳 Senegal The 1930sIn 1938 in the french West Africa, Lucien Cordier is a weak and corrupted policeman despised by the local bad boys. His wife is openly cheating on him and he hasn't got any self-respect anymore. But when comes the occasion, his revenge will be terrible.
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Ceddo
🇸🇳 Senegal The 17th CenturyWhen King Demba War sides with the Muslims, the Ceddo kidnap his daughter, Princess Dior Yacine, to protest their forcible conversion to Islam.
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Xala
🇸🇳 SenegalIt is the dawn of Senegal's independence from France, but as the citizens celebrate in the streets we soon become aware that only the faces have changed. White money still controls the government. One official, Aboucader Beye, known by the title "El Hadji," takes advantage of some of that money to marry his third wife, to the sorrow and chagrin of his first two wives and the resentment of his nationalist daughter. But he discovers on his wedding night that he has been struck with a "xala," a curse of impotence. El Hadji goes to comic lengths to find the cause and remove the xala, resulting in a scathing satirical ending.
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Touki Bouki
🇸🇳 SenegalThe Journey of the Hyena — A cowherd with a skull-mounted motorcycle and a university student meet in Dakar; put off by life in Senegal, they plan to make money in Paris.
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Emitaï
🇸🇳 Senegal The 1940sAs 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.
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Badou Boy
🇸🇳 SenegalSarcastic look at Senegal's capital that followed the adventures of what the director described as a "somewhat immoral street urchin who is very much like myself".
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Mandabi
🇸🇳 SenegalA 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.
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Black Girl
🇸🇳 SenegalEager to find a better life abroad, a Senegalese woman becomes a mere governess to a family in southern France, suffering from discrimination and marginalization.
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The Wagoner
🇸🇳 SenegalA cart-taxi driver goes to the city to make a living, but out of sympathy with other poverty-stricken people, he works for free and goes hungry himself.
