Shorts Program 2: Senegal Spotlight
New York African Film Festival 2017
May 3 - 9, 2017
Boxing Girl Iman Djionne, Senegal, 2016, 26m Wolof and French with English subtitles U.S. Premiere Boxing Girl is a coming-of-age tale about a bored 17-year-old hairdresser who finds red boxing gloves after getting hit by a motorbike in Dakar. As soon as she puts them on, she gets mysteriously carried all over the city. Dem! […]
Boxing Girl
Iman Djionne, Senegal, 2016, 26m
Wolof and French with English subtitles
U.S. Premiere
Boxing Girl is a coming-of-age tale about a bored 17-year-old hairdresser who finds red boxing gloves after getting hit by a motorbike in Dakar. As soon as she puts them on, she gets mysteriously carried all over the city.
Dem! Dem!
Christophe Rolin, Senegal, 2016, 26m
Wolof and French with English subtitles
A Senegalese fisherman finds a Belgian passport on a beach in Dakar and decides to use it. He soon crosses paths with N’Zibou, a wise man who measures the clouds and questions the man about his search for identity.
Maman(s)
Maïmouna Doucouré, Senegal/France, 2016, 20m
French with English subtitles
The lives of eight-year-old Aida and her family, who live in an apartment in the Parisian suburbs, are turned upside down when the girl’s father returns from their home country of Senegal—and he is not alone.
Marabout
Alassane Sy, Senegal, 2016, 18m
Wolof and French with English subtitles
U.S. Premiere
Marabout is the story of a police detective in Dakar who pursues a group of street kids after they steal from him, only to learn about the dangers they are exposed to in their daily lives.
Samedi Cinema
Mamadou Dia, USA, 2017, 11m
Wolof and French with English subtitles
Two young Senegalese boys’ friendship is tested after they are determined to see one last film at the town movie theater before it closes.
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