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 ...

Dr. Amadou Fofana, professor of french and francophone studies at Willamette University in Oregon, visited Bowdoin’s campus on Tuesday, March 6 to share his recent documentary, SenCinema, with the ...

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', ...

Born and raised in Matam, Northern Senegal, making films was not “a childhood dream” for Dia. After years working as a journalist for the Associated Press and Agence France-Presse, Dia grew tired of ...

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 ...

Paris-based Algerian filmmaker Rachid Bouchareb's latest film reverses the idea of "Roots" and follows the fortunes of a 65-year-old Senegalese from his African home to Harlem, where he manages to ...

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.