在我的房间

Made during confinement, “In My Room” plunges us into the poignant story of a woman at the twilight of her life, through recordings of the director’s deceased grandmother. Living rooms become stages where life is performed. Windows become portals to the lives of others.

千阳

The film accompanies Magaye Niyang, a star of Touki-Bouki, a 1972 classic directed by her own uncle Djibril Diop. Following this path, we are witness of Niyang travel to a special screening of the film, which has a public release in his old town. Niyang seems detached and with a heavy longing from the past, and therefore, the film debris permeates everything with unescapable sorrow and fascination.　　Diop film is, first and foremost, a nostalgic travel through memory, time and recreation. It is also a watermark in contemporary experimental documentary, a very intimate portrait of a lost long journey through the past that isn’t returning anymore, a detachment of rejected fame, recognition and connection which is heavily grounded on a legacy that belongs to the past, and that connects directly to a country (Senegal) and its heritage, which is sometimes feel excruciating for the old ones (a testimony such as the taxi scene in the film, where the cab driver longs for changes, and claims tha

达荷美

About the return of the royal treasures of Abomey in Benin, snatched away by colonial plunder, to a country that has had to build itself up and come to terms with their absence.

大西洋

一群无薪的建筑工人们出海去异国寻找更好的生活，却一夜之间在海上消失了，被他们留在达喀尔的女人们则饱受莫名高烧之苦。17 岁的艾达私下为爱人苏雷曼（去世的工人之一）而哀悼，但是她已经被许配给另一个男人。她的新婚之夜发生了一场大火，随后一名年轻的警察被派去调查案情。但他不知道的是，这些愤愤不平的工人们回来了，而且已经变成了阴魂不散的、占有欲极强的幽灵。他们中的许多人都是为自己的不公待遇报仇，而苏雷曼却是出于不同的目的，他想要见艾达最后一面。