Films
Touki Bouki
1973 · 91 min · Senegal · Cert. 16
Directed by Djibril Diop Mambéty
Mory, a cowherd, and Anta, a university student, try to make money in order to go to Paris and leave their boring past behind.
Digital restoration
Programme note
Mory and Anta want Paris. Mambéty gives them a motorbike with zebu horns and a Dakar that refuses to let them leave.
Restored by the World Cinema Project. The soundtrack still sounds like nothing else made in 1973.
Written about this film
Sep 6, 2026
Mambéty's motorbike: Touki Bouki at fifty
A Dakar road movie that refuses the road, restored by the World Cinema Project.