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Film Movement
1963–present
Senegalese Cinema
African Cinema
The cinema of Senegal is a relatively small film industry which experienced its prime from the 1960s through to the early 1980s, before undergoing a stark decline since the late 1990s until its gradual revival from the 2010s onwards. Senegal is one of the capitals of African cinema and an important places of African film production after its independence from France in 1960.
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Key Directors
A filmmaker of intimate ruptures and diaspora's quiet violence. Her films move between documentary precision and dreamlike memory, asking what it means to belong nowhere and everywhere at once. The personal becomes an archaeology of loss.
Ousmane Sembène is primarily remembered for his milestone contribution to African film history. His early films represent a linguistic and cultural shift from telling the stories of Africans in colonial countries by colonial filmmakers or filmmakers who were descendants of coloni
Defining Films
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