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• Mandabi | Blu Ray | (28/06/2021) from £12.56   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A money order from a relative in Paris throws the life of a Senegalese family man out of order. He deals with corruption, greed, problematic family members, the locals and the changing from his traditional way of living to a more modern one.Special FeaturesShooting Mandabi - Silent Footage from British PathéAudio Commentary with Sembène! (2015) Filmmakers Samba Gadjigo and Jason SilvermanInterview with Alain Sembène A Senegalese Story - Mandabi and the Birth of West African Cinema (Professor David Murphy)A Date With Dakar - Looking Back at a Sembène Classic (Film Curator Keith Shiri)Conversation in Dakar with Author Boubacar Boris Diop and Sociologist Marie-Angélique SavanéTheatrical trailer20-page booklet with brand-new essay from celebrated Sembène writer David Murphy

• Kirikou And The Sorceress | DVD | (01/12/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Based on a traditional West African folk tale the film tells the story of the 10cm Kirikou a small boy who delivers himself from his mother's womb to emerge walking and talking. Kirkou undertakes a perilous journey in order to discover the secret of the evil sorceress who has cursed his village eating up the men folk and drying up the spring.

• Mandabi | DVD | (28/06/2021) from £5.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Available for the first time in the UK - A stunning new 4K restoration of trailblazing director, Ousmane Sembène's 1968 ground-breaking film MANDABI, the first-ever feature length film in the African language of Wolof. Never released in the UK, MANDABI denounces an administrative system inherited from the colonial era and the rife corruption taking place for official's own personal gain. Ibrahima Dieng receives a letter containing a money order for twenty-five thousand CFA francs from his nephew, a street sweeper in Paris. But the news spreads fast in his neighborhood... women, his neighbors and family see in this promise of money their escape. Ibrahima must then face a nightmarish foray into the corrupt and absurd world of Senegalese bureaucracy, which eventually leaves him even more miserable than he was before. Bonus Extras Shooting Mandabi - Silent Footage from British Pathé Audio Commentary with Sembène! (2015) Filmmakers Samba Gadjigo and Jason Silverman Interview with Alain Sembène A Senegalese Story - Mandabi and the Birth of West African Cinema (Professor David Murphy) A Date With Dakar - Looking Back at a Sembène Classic (Film Curator Keith Shiri) Conversation in Dakar with Author Boubacar Boris Diop and Sociologist Marie-Angélique Savané Theatrical trailer 20-page booklet with brand-new essay from celebrated Sembène writer David Murphy