Film

The Revolution Won't Be Televised

Ask the street poets...

5.0

1h 50m

2016

“Ask the street poets...”

Synopsis

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.

Director

Rama Thiaw

Trailer

Documentary

woman director

Cast & Crew

Khady Sylla

as Self

Cyrille Oumar Touré

as Self

Karim Sama

as Self

Pape Alioune Gadiaga

as Self

Abdoulaye Diallo

as Self

Landing Mbessane Seck

as Self

Abdoulaye Wade

as Self

Safiatou Denise Sow

as Self

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