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The African Cinema Podcast

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  • Senegalese Cinema: Echoes & New Voices (1980 until now)

    Senegalese Cinema: Echoes & New Voices (1980 until now)
    May 22 2025
    In the 1980s, Senegalese cinema was brought to its knees. Austerity measures gutted funding, theatres closed, and filmmakers were left with little support. And yet—the stories didn’t stop.In Part 2 of our Senegal series, we explore how cinema in Senegal endured through silence, adapted with digital tools, and re-emerged through new voices and platforms. From Sembène’s final masterpieces to Mati Diop’s historic Cannes debut, this is the story of resistance, rebirth, and reinvention.🎬 We examine how Camp de Thiaroye and Guelwaar extended Ousmane Sembène’s cinematic resistance into a new political decade.📽️ We look at Safi Faye’s lyrical Mossane and her ongoing commitment to rural Senegalese stories.🎞️ We revisit Hyènes and La Petite Vendeuse de Soleil, Djibril Diop Mambéty’s haunting final statements.📺 We dive into the digital era—from YouTube series to streaming culture—and a new generation reclaiming the screen.Films MentionedCamp de Thiaroye (1987)Sembène's dramatization of the 1944 Thiaroye massacre—unflinching in its critique of French colonialism and banned in France for years.🎞 IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094792/Guelwaar (1992)A provocative portrait of a political activist whose death sparks a conflict over religious identity, foreign aid, and national values.🎞 IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107060/Selbé et tant d'autres (1983)Safi Faye’s documentary chronicling the life of Selbé, a woman in rural Senegal who supports her family alone.🎞 IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1537275/Mossane (1996)A coming-of-age story centered on a 14-year-old girl in a Serer village, blending beauty, tradition, and quiet rebellion.🎞 IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113867/Hyènes (1992)Mambéty’s surreal adaptation of Dürrenmatt’s The Visit, critiquing consumerism and the price of justice in a corrupt society.🎞 IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104485/La Petite Vendeuse de Soleil (1999)Mambéty’s final film—a short, luminous tale of a disabled girl who defies gender norms to become a newspaper seller in Dakar.🎞 IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0201843/Atlantics (2019)Directed by Mati Diop, this Cannes Grand Prix-winning film blends migration drama with supernatural love story, giving voice to the young and dispossessed in Dakar.🎞 IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10403420/Maîtresse d’un homme marié (2019– )A groundbreaking YouTube/Wolof-language series from Marodi TV exploring love, gender politics, and urban life in contemporary Senegal.🎞 IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11247994/Emerging Voices & InstitutionsMati Diop – First Black woman to compete at Cannes; creator of AtlanticsAngèle Diabang – Director of Congo, un médecin pour sauver les femmes and several short films on identity and womanhoodMoussa Touré – Known for La Pirogue (2012), focused on migration and human rightsAlassane Sy – Director of Marabout (2016) and advocate for queer and marginalized narrativesKourtrajmé Dakar – Film school founded in 2022 to train a new generation of Senegalese filmmakersComplexe Cinématographique Ousmane Sembène – Reopened in 2018 to restore cinema-going culture in Dakar🎥 Emerging Voices & Institutions
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    6 m
  • Senegalese Cinema: The Beginning

    Senegalese Cinema: The Beginning
    May 15 2025

    From colonial bans to a cinematic renaissance, Part 1 of our two-part Senegal series (1934–1980) traces how filmmakers defied repression to forge Africa’s first film language.

    What happens when your art is forbidden—and you insist on telling your story anyway?

    🎬 We examine Paulin Vieyra’s Afrique-sur-Seine (1955), shot in Paris against the 1934 Laval Decree.
    📽️ We trace Ousmane Sembène’s transition from novelist to filmmaker in Borom Sarret (1963) and Black Girl (1966).
    🎞️ We spotlight Djibril Diop Mambéty’s kinetic shorts Contras’ City (1969) & Badou Boy (1970) leading to the surreal road-movie Touki Bouki (1973).
    💡 We explore Safi Faye’s vérité poetics in Kaddu Beykat (1975), banned at home but celebrated abroad.

    🟢 Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or YouTube


    🎬 Films Mentioned

    • Afrique-sur-Seine (1955): West African students in Paris confront identity and prejudice in this 21-minute defiance of colonial censorship.
      IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1705824/

    • Borom Sarret (1963): An 18-minute realist drama of a Dakar cart driver’s daily humiliations; often called the first true African film.
      IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060183/

    • Black Girl (1966): The first sub-Saharan fiction feature by a Black director, it follows a Senegalese maid’s alienation in France.
      IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060758/

    • Mandabi (1968): A Wolof-language satire about an illiterate man’s struggle to cash a money order, skewering post-independence bureaucracy.
      IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063049/

    • Emitai (1971): A Diola-and-French epic depicting villagers’ resistance to Vichy France’s World War II conscription.
      IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067368/

    • Contras’ City (1969): Mambéty’s debut short: a restless portrait of urban dislocation in Dakar.
      IMDb: N/A

    • Badou Boy (1970): A slapstick-laden chase short critiquing social inequality through a petty thief’s flight across Dakar.
      IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181352/

    • Touki Bouki (1973): A surreal road-movie of lovers dreaming of Paris, using frenetic editing to capture postcolonial disillusionment.
      IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070975/

    • La Passante (1972): Faye’s debut short observing a young woman navigating Dakar’s marketplaces.
      IMDb: N/A

    • Revanche (1973): A contemplative short by Faye on rural justice and personal vengeance in her Serer village.
      IMDb: N/A

    • Kaddu Beykat (1975): A vérité-style critique of agricultural policies in a Serer village; banned locally, it won Cannes’s FIPRESCI Prize.
      IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073659/

    • Xala (1975): Sembène’s satire of post-independence elites, where a businessman’s impotence becomes political allegory.
      IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073871/

    • Ceddo (1977): A precolonial allegory of cultural resistance as non-Muslims oppose forced religious conversion.
      IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076468/

    • Fad’jal (1979): Faye’s homage to her Serer roots, preserving oral histories through villagers’ storytelling.
      IMDb: N/A

    Next Up (Part 2): We dive into the 1980s—when austerity shuttered Dakar’s cinemas, yet visionaries like Sembène and Faye refused to be silenced, and digital tools sparked a vibrant resurgence.
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    11 m
  • Projector Dreams – Still Rolling: The Reinvention of Egyptian Cinema (2000–2025)

    Projector Dreams – Still Rolling: The Reinvention of Egyptian Cinema (2000–2025)
    May 9 2025

    The final installment of our Egyptian cinema series dives into a 25-year stretch of transformation, turbulence, and tenacity.

    From digital disruption and revolution to censorship, economic collapse, and global streaming deals, this episode follows the rise of a new kind of filmmaker — one who builds with less, dreams bigger, and survives on grit.

    🎬 Featuring:

    • The making of The Yacoubian Building and The Square

    • The impact of Netflix and Shahid on local production

    • The collapse of box office revenue post-2023

    • Why directors like Ayten Amin and Amr Salama matter more than ever

    • And the new frontier of indie Egyptian cinema

    🎧 Available now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube
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    7 m
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