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 ...

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 ...

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', ...

Alain Gomis' film offers a raw look at a single mother whose passion for music helps her endure the harsh realities of life in the Democratic Republic of Congo. By Jordan Mintzer Born in Paris to a ...

Dakar, Senegal — An estimated one in three girls in Senegal are married before the age of 18, putting them at a higher risk for abuse, complications from pregnancy, and making them more likely to drop ...

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(MENAFN- ForPressRelease) Noida, July 2025: In a landmark initiative to foster cross-cultural cinematic collaboration, the Indo Senegal Film and Cultural Forum, under the aegis of the International ...

RUFISQUE, Senegal — Members of a 200-strong audience struggle to hold back tears as the credits roll on the film “Io Capitano” in a small auditorium in the outskirts of Senegal’s capital Dakar. The ...

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 ...

DAKAR, SENEGAL — An estimated one in three girls in Senegal are married before the age of 18, putting them at a higher risk for abuse, complications from pregnancy, and making them more likely to drop ...