DAKAR-CLANDO

Dakar-Clando

Episode africain de la série internationale"City Life"
1990

19'30"

initiated by Rijneke & Van Leeuwaarden

Réalisation : William Ousmane MBAYE

Directeur de la Photo: Bara DIONKHANE

Assistant- Réalisateur: Amet DIALLO

Montage: MARIO

Chef Electro: Moussa TOURE

Régie: Mansour KEBE

Ingénieur du Son: Ngalla MBOW

Musique : Aziz DIENG

Assistante de Production: Marie Pierre MBAYE

Production: Les Films Mame Yandé

Avec : Omar Seck, Awa Sene Sarr, Fatima Mendes, Thiaba Ndiaye...

The husband in DAKAR disappeared. Aided by soothsayers and the authorities, the woman of the house and her cousin venture into an intensive search, resulting in an illuminating view of a hypocritical society, dominated by islamic values. At night they find the husband, wasting his money in a clando, a semi clandestine bordello and shebe

Une femme part à la recherche de son mari disparu depuis

trois jours dans les coulisses de Dakar.

Un prétexte pour le réalisateur à nous faire découvrir

la face cachée de la vie dakaroise.

Co-production: TV3 Spain, DRS Switzerland, NOS television The Netherlands, Gosteleradio Moscow GOS, Hamburger Filmbüro BRD, Hungarian Filminstitute Hungary, Movimiento Falso Argentina, Fundacao do Cinema Brasileiro Brazil, Les Films Mame Yande Senegal, South West Alternate Media Project U.S.A., Grusia Film Tbilisi Georgia, Art Center Studio Poland

Festivals: Rotterdam (opening night), Berlin (Forum, closing night), Hong Kong, Antwerp, Montréal, Figueira da Foz, Birmingham, Chicago, São Paulo, Amiens, Barcelona, Tampere, Seattle, Moscow, Göteborg, Cairo, Houston, New Delhi.

Major Award of the British film industry at the Birmingham International Film and Television Festival 1990. Getz World Peace Prize 1990, Chicago International Film Festival. Special Prize for the initiators from the Sovjet Filmmakers Union at the Moscow International Film Festival 1991. Special Jury Award at the International Worldfest Houston 1992. distributed by International Art Film, Amsterdam