Movies from Senegal

This Senegalese melodrama tells the story of a young girl called Mossane who lives in a village between the ocean and the savannah. There, veneration for the traditions is very common. There's a legend saying that every other century a girl is born who is doomed because of her beauty. Mossane is only fourteen years old but is already considered to be extraordinary beautiful. Even her own brother is in love with her. According to the custom she has been promised to a rather wealthy man called Diogoye since the day of her birth.

La petite vendeuse du soleil
Dans les rues de Dakar, ce sont les garçons qui ont le monopole de la vente des journaux. Bien qu'elle se déplace avec des béquilles, Sili, 12 ans, a fermement décidé qu?elle aussi allait distribuer le quotidien sénégalais, le Soleil. Elle y parviendra grâce à son courage et à sa persévérance. Un hymne à l'amitié et au courage des enfants des rues.

Le franc
Marigo, le joyeux musicien, rend la vie dure à sa revêche propriétaire.

Mory, a cowherd who rides a motorcycle mounted with a cow's skull, and Anta, a university student, have met in Dakar, Senegal's capital. Alienated and disaffected with Senegal and Africa, they long to go to Paris and work up different con schemes to raise the money. Mory steals clothing and money from a wealthy gay man who had brought him home, and he and Anta book passage on a ship to France. One of the most important, engaged and fascinating movies (...)