DAKAR (Reuters) - To capture the harsh reality of life in Senegal, film director Mati Diop chose young people she met at building sites, bars and in Dakar's poorer suburbs as the stars of 'Atlantics', ...

STORY: For photographer Amy Saar, a roll of film and her vintage Pentax camera are the best way to capture Senegal's capital city. "I find that Dakar looks great with certain colored films because ...

EXCLUSIVE: After clinching the Grand Prix at Cannes in 2019 with her debut fiction feature Atlantics, French-Senegalese filmmaker Mati Diop had one burning desire. “My dream was to set up a film ...

In a scene from Senegalese filmmaker Moussa Sène Absa’s trilogy-concluding “Xalé” – the opening film at Joburg Film Festival – a bunch of kids sit on a beach and watch a movie as a projector throws ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: A silent strobe light, a trash-covered street, and a relentless ocean—these are some of the images that anchor Atlantics, a Sengalese film headed to Netflix on November ...

Senegal has selected French-Senegalese filmmaker Mati Diop’s Golden Bear-winning contemporary doc Dahomey as its submission for Best International Feature Film at the 97th Academy Awards. Dahomey had ...

Debutante director Ramata-Toulaye Sy will join one of world cinema’s most select clubs when she climbs the stairs of the Grand Theatre Lumière on May 20 for the premiere of “Banel & Adama,” which ...

DAKAR, Senegal — Lawmakers in the United States have condemned “Cuties,” accusing the controversial French film’s creators of exploiting children. But viewers in the Senegalese capital saw no such ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - "Tey", a Senegalese modern fairy-tale which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival on Friday, depicts a young man who wakes up inexplicably knowing today is the last day of his life.

Saloum opens with a musical riff that sounds like an accelerating jet engine, a declarative African drumbeat, and a droning white-noise machine fed together through a whirring meat grinder. It’s a ...