Senegal Movies

Eager to find a better life abroad, a Senegalese woman becomes a mere governess to a family in southern France, suffering from discrimination and...

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

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

Tells the story of an official that misappropriates public funds to seduce a courtesan.

Thierry, a world-famous cyclist, meets Fae, a sex worker, on his holiday in Senegal, and they sense in each other the love they seek. However,...

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,...

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...

Badou Boy, a cheeky young man, travels through the streets of Dakar on the city buses and experiences adventures.

Une nation est née depicts the progression of Senegal from colonization to sovereignty, shown allegorically through scenes of dance and...

Bisagras is a film that triangulates the journey of African slaves to America and draws a line that goes through my brown skin.

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...

After his mother develops cancer from dépigmentation, Khalilou fights toxic beauty standards. Disguised as Leila, he enters the "Miss...

Dakar, Senegal. Ousmane, a 7 year old child, begs in the streets. He decides to write a letter to Santa Claus.

El Hadj is studying in Paris. He is one of the young Senegalese men who have come to Paris since the French colony became independent to get a good...

Haunted by the death of her mother, a young woman drifting through Dakar crosses paths with a secretive sisterhood of soul-eating women — the...

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

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

An audiovisual poem about life, death, body and nature, totality, loneliness and connectedness.

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...

Director Alice Diop was born in France of Senegalese parents. After their death, she felt the need to explore her roots. Armed with her camera, she...