Senegalese cinema was pioneered by Ousmane Sembène, whose Black Girl (1966) is widely recognised as the first sub-Saharan African feature film. The country has continued producing distinctive work, from Djibril Diop Mambéty's poetic shorts to Mati Diop's haunting Atlantics. See what Macca made of them below.
Rating: 2.0★
The question of what happens to cultural heritage stolen under colonialism is one that museums across Europe have been forced to sit with, uncomfortably, for decades. Nowhere is that discomfort more pointed than in the case of the royal treasures of Dahomey, a powerful West African kingdom (roughly corresponding to
Rating: 3.5★
There is a particular kind of film that arrives with relatively little fanfare, circulates quietly among cinephiles for decades, and then one day gets reassessed as something rather essential. Djibril Diop Mambéty's Touki Bouki is exactly that kind of film. Released in 1973, the same year as Ousmane
Genre Horror
★★★ — Saloum (2021)
Genre Drama
★★★½ — Black Girl (1966)
Genre Comedy
★★½ — Le Franc (1994)
Genre Drama
★★★ — The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun (1999)
Genre Drama
★★★ — Atlantics (2019)
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