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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.

Source: Wikipedia
Key Directors
Mati Diop
No. 09 · France · Paris
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
Senegal
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
Black Girl 1966 · Ousmane Sembène
Atlantics 2019 · Mati Diop
Moolaadé 2004 · Ousmane Sembène
Faat Kiné 2001 · Ousmane Sembène
Guelwaar 1993 · Ousmane Sembène
Camp de Thiaroye 1988 · Ousmane Sembène
Ceddo 1978 · Ousmane Sembène
Related Movements in African Cinema
FESPACO Generation
1969–present
North African Cinema
1960s–present
South African Cinema
1990s–present