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The Revolution Won't Be Televised

Ask the street poets...
Feb 17, 2016 · 1h 50m
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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.

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CAST

Khady Sylla
Self
Cyrille Oumar Touré
Self
Karim Sama
Self
Pape Alioune Gadiaga
Self
Abdoulaye Diallo
Self
Landing Mbessane Seck
Self
Abdoulaye Wade
Self
Safiatou Denise Sow
Self
Directed by Rama Thiaw

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Released
Original language
WO
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Production
Boul Fallé Images, Doc Society
Country
SN

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