#Senegalese films

[blackinmotionpictures]

Dahomey (2024) | dir. Mati Diop

[shihlun]

Ousmane Sembene

- La noire de... AKA Black Girl

1966

[allweknewisdead]

Ceddo (1977) - Ousmane Sembène

[folditdouble]

Women in Film Challenge 2023: [32/52] Mossane, dir. Safi Faye (Senegal/Germany, 1996)

Mossane wants to love, and we drown her love in stories of money and “given words”! We construct these ploys without asking for her opinion.

[pacingmusings]

Seen in 2023:

Xala (Ousmane Sembene), 1975

[a-pint-of-j-and-b]

Hyènes | 1992 | Djibril Diop Mambéty | Senegal

[nine-frames]

"French Citizenship? No, thank you. I remain African, and I keep my education."

Camp De Thiaroye, 1988.

Dir. & Writ. Ousmane Sembène & Thierno Faty Sow | DOP Smaïl Lakhdar-Hamina

[satternpaturn]

Touki Bouki, 1973, dir. Djibril Diop Mambéty

[belleandre-belle]

Ousmane Sembène (1 January 1923 – 9 June 2007)

[nomallmovieschicago]

21 September 2023

Film: GUELWAAL (d. Ousmane Sembène, 1992, France-Senegal)

Forum: Gene Siskel Film Center   Format: 4K Digital

Observations: As part of the Film Center's celebration of Sembène's centennial, they screened a program of his features, including this seldom-seen title. It's an anti-colonial fim about the friction between neighboring Christian and Muslim communities over two switched corpses and a misburial in the wrong religious cemetery. Considering how scarce this film remains in the States, I was surprised to only see about 20 folks in the audience (in the large theater).

[magnoliamyrrh]

im glad hyenas aint the most popular movie bc its message would go way over the head of ppl. ramatou would b a sexworker girlboss (already seen this god awful take) who is not only admirable, but she girlbossed her way back in town to an eye for an eye the man who ruined her life and also fuck up her entire village, to "turn the world into a whorehouse." except the movie shows how this isnt good. how draman created her through his actions, and how the world creates her by relegaing her to a whore, but also how her decision to turn the world into a whorehouse and do the same to others isnt acceptable or good. its understandable, sad, tragic, but no good. the movie in general shoes how an opressed, traumatized, post-colonized people both are pushed into, but also choose to behave in ways which turn them into hyenas, relinquish their morality and dignity, how poverty and hardship and promises of better things lead to actions which are not morally defendable nontheless. how opression may have created them, but how they are creating themselves through their own decisions and actions as well, how its not acceptable or good. tragic, sad, understandable, but not good.

the whole movie is basically "just bc the world fucked u up and youve been opressed and victimized doesn't mean uve got no responsability for your actions and how you are, and also, watch out that you dont become just like your opressors" and thats a morality way beyond the one weve got today

[shihlun]

Ousmane Sembene

- La noire de... AKA Black Girl

1966

[vintesetereais]

Touki-Bouki (1973), dir. Djibril Diop Mambéty

[pacingmusings]

Seen in 2023:

Black Girl (Ousmane Sembene), 1966

[shabanavdulaj]

The Captain (2023)

dir. Matteo Garrone