Makhouredia Gueye

60s satirical drama by Ousmane Sembène, the father of African cinema. The life of a simple family man is turned upside down after he receives some money from a nephew in France.

Visionary director Djibril Diop Mambéty (Touki Bouki) makes a feisty assault on economic imperialism in this loose adaptation of Friedrich Durrenmatt’s play, The Visit. Relocated to a Senegalese town, Hyenas is a comic, cutting critique of globalization conveyed with playful, imaginative flourish.