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The Revolution Won't Be Televised

02/17/2016

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1hr 50min

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Documentary

Ask the street poets...

STORY

When President Abdoulaye Wade wanted to run for office yet again in 2011, a resistance movement formed on the streets. Shortly afterwards, a group of school friends, including rappers Thiat and Kilifeu, set up "Y'en a marre" ("We Are Fed Up"), with filmmaker Rama Thiaw soon coming on board to start documenting events – meetings, campaigns, arrests, concerts, states of exhaustion, trips – from an "insider" perspective. Over several years, a stirring portrait emerged of a youth protest movement to whom independent observers were not the only ones to ascribe the role of "kingmaker" in the last elections. Rama Thiaw shows the rappers and their environment with an intimacy whose cinematographic finesse provides space and context for the thorny conflicts between music and politics, street and state.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Khady Sylla
  • Cyrille Oumar Touré
  • Karim Sama
  • Pape Alioune Gadiaga
  • Abdoulaye Diallo

    Director

  • Axel Salvatori-Sinz

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Boul Fallé Images

    Production Countries

  • Senegal

LANGUAGES

  • French
  • Wolof

Cast

Cyrille Oumar Touré

Self

Karim Sama

Self

Pape Alioune Gadiaga

Self

Landing Mbessane Seck

Self

Abdoulaye Wade

Self

Safiatou Denise Sow

Self

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