Directing
A group of Black filmmakers and actors are reenacting the board meeting of a community cinema. A letter of complaint has been addressed to the cinema. It revives the tensions about the appropriate behavior towards a group of Black men who occupies the lobby of the building during the day, while the cinema is showing a film about the situation of these undocumented workers. This letter is asking how the institution is really committed to social change beyond the films they screen?
Rokhaya, a young filmmaker, invites four friends to create a musical crime comedy together. This cheerful team then dreams up the quirky adventure of four rookie investigators working on the murder of two lovers. But who could have killed John and Lisa?
As they perform fictional scenes inspired by the testimony of a young Moroccan who has fled the war in Ukraine, the actors collectively question what the notion of safety means to them.
A young filmmaker shoots a thriller in a retirement home, with its own dwellers.
A meteorite is about to crash into the planet, destroying everything in its path and sealing humanity’s fate forever.
Rokhaya, a young director, returns to her home in Dakar to make a film about a local historical figure. Throughout her research, which consists of interviews with local personalities, discussions with her team and fictional scenes shot on location, we discover the story of Aline Sitoe Diatta.
