Rocking Poponguine

Iranian Iradj Azimi directed this French historical drama re-creating events depicted in the famous 1819 painting The Raft of the Medusa by Jean Louis Andre Theodore Gericault (1791-1824). The ill-fated voyage of the frigate Medusa begins when it departs Rochefort for Senegal in 1816. After striking a sandbar off the African coast, 150...

Runtime

2h 10m

Director

Iradj Azimi

Cast

Jean Yanne, Daniel Mesguich, Claude Jade

Ben Singer is a failed children's folk singer, a career proofreader, a less-than-extraordinary weekend dad, and perhaps the most negative man alive. Floundering in all aspects of his life, Ben's only comfort comes from regular chess games and friendly debates on game theory with his Senegalese roommate Ibou. When Ibou is suddenly struc...

Runtime

1h 29m

Director

Joshua Goldin

Cast

Matthew Broderick, Sanaa Lathan, Michael Kenneth Williams

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 education so that he can serve his fatherland on his return. Unexpectedly he is suddenly confronted by a problem with his residence papers, just because he has arranged an extension too lat...

Runtime

1h 30m

Cast

Djolof Mbengue, Delphine Zingg, Samir Guesmi

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 public humiliation.

Runtime

2h 1m

Director

Ousmane Sembène

Cast

Thierno Leye, Myriam Niang, Seune Samb

Mory, a cowherd, and Anta, a university student, try to make money in order to go to Paris and leave their boring past behind.

Runtime

1h 31m

Director

Djibril Diop Mambéty

Cast

Magaye Niang, Myriam Niang, Christoph Colomb