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 ...

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 ...

The 14th edition of the Luxor African Film Festival (9-14 January) honoured the Senegalese director Moussa Sène Absa, known as the father of suburban cinema. We talk to Sène Absa about his career and ...

Mati Diop, niece of the late, great Senegalese cinema pioneer Djibril Diop Mambéty — director of African cinema classics “Touki Bouki” and “Hyènes” — makes her feature film directorial debut with ...

The 76th edition of the Cannes Film Festival promises to be a promising one for Africa. The continent is not only represented in its territorial and narrative diversity, but also in terms of gender.

Sembene is celebrated for championing social and political issues throughout his career as a writer and filmmaker The African cinema archive fund ASM is digitalising old negatives of photos of ...

The man commonly regarded as the "father of African cinema" – Ousmane Sembène – died just a few years ago in 2007. He was 84 and left behind a total of 10 feature-length films, a number that seems all ...

DAKAR, Senegal Sembene Ousmane, the father of Senegalese cinema and one of the pioneers of the art in Africa, died at his home over the weekend after a long illness. He was 84.

Born in 1958 in the working-class neighbourhood of Tableau Ferraille, near the Senegalese capital Dakar, Moussa Sène Absa was introduced to Indian cinema by his friends at a very young age. He moved ...