Touki Bouki Film
Djibril Diop Mambety | Senegal 1973 | Wolof and French with English subtitles | 15
Synopsis
This classic of African cinema, made by rebel filmmaker Mambety in 1973, was shown at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival, and ever since then has experienced a cult classic reputation. Djibril Diop Mambéty is still regarded as one of the most important African filmmakers of all time: a visionary, an aesthete, a political animal. But as a lone dissenter, allergic to institutional obedience, his work was deliberately ‘lost’ by those in power. The film was restored in 2008 at Cineteca di Bologna / L’Immagine Ritrovata Laboratory by Martin Scorsese’s project World Cinema Foundation. Mory, a charismatic cowherd who drives a motorcycle mounted with a bull-horned skull, and Anta, a female student, meet and fall in love in Senegal's capital Dakar. Alienated and tired of life, they dream of going to Paris and come up with different schemes to raise money for the trip.