Directing
Senegalese filmmaker.
On the Senegal River, a fisherman makes a strange encounter. A film that addresses the essential relationship between man and his environment.
The amorous adventures of Karim, a young Senegalese, divided between the duties of traditional society and the temptations of the West
Short directed by Momar Thiam.
Idrissa is a rebellious little boy who drops out of school and joins a gang of hooligans that live on the beaches of Dakar. He gradually becomes detached from his family and adopted by his new friends who initiate him into the art of theft and the pleasures of yamba, marijuana.
The game of the false lion is a custom dating back more than a century. It is believed that only the people who have been touched by the lion can identify with it and be subject to the influence of its behaviour. Pierre N'Gom, with this son, the lion cub, are the last descendants of a family of false lions. In the chaos of the popular celebration, and to the endless rhythm of drums, the lion and the cub attack the public to give vent to their aggressiveness. The false lion can be tamed only by the eloquence of the word.
A woman wakes up in the grips of a nightmare: a spirit has possessed her. To be cured, she has to go to a healer who practises exorcisms. With an ethnological slant, the film concentrates on the healing ceremony, the N'Doep.
A man sets off and leaves his son and a trunk containing all his possessions in the care of his dearest friend. The son becomes a man but his guardian never mentions the treasure he is also guarding. A dispute occurs and a local sage will propose a test of resistance.