Senegalese film scoops top award at FESPACO
Felicite, a tale about a nightclub singer who has to scrape together funds to pay for her son's treatment after a road accident, scooped the top prize at Africa's top cinema festival.
$1 million in revenues for Timbuktu in the United States
The film by Abderrahmane Sissako, produced by Sylvie Pialat for Films du Worso, enjoys a magnificent career in America, a territory that is usually difficult to conquer.
Martin Scorsese digitally restores Djibril Diop Mambéty’s masterpiece Touki Bouki
The Criterion Collection has just released a new box set and it's a big one. Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project collector's set brings together six classic films from around the world. Among them is Senegalese filmmaker Djibril Diop Mambety's 1973 masterpiece Touki Bouki.
Legal download site for African films
AfricaFilms.tv, created by the Senegalese company SOON, is a legal film download site for films from and about Africa.
