On Friday 22 December (Rialto De Pijp, 21.15), the film will be introduced by theatre-maker and performer Myra Fanta Bodian and creative and Senegal expert Khady Postma.
Touki Bouki
Touki Bouki might well be the first avant-garde film made on the African continent. Senegalese director Djibril Diop Mambéty was clearly inspired by the French nouvelle vague, as evidenced by the camerawork, thus commenting on the (post)colonial situation of his native country. When Martin Scorsese saw the film for the first time, he lavished it with praise, calling it "a cinematic poem made with a raw, wild energy."
In the Senegalese capital Dakar, the young cowherd and petty criminal Mory and his university student girlfriend Anta dream of a life elsewhere. They are more than fed up with life in Senegal and want to leave for Paris. Mory knows how to rustle up the money for the trip, stealing it from a well-off homosexual. Mory is convinced that a bright future awaits him in France, but Anta is far more realistic. Now they have the money to buy their tickets.
Restored in 2008 by The World Cinema Foundation at Cineteca di Bologna/L’Immagine Ritrovata in association with the family of Djibril Diop Mambéty. Restoration funding provided by Armani, Cartier, Qatar Airways and Qatar Museum Authority.
