poster movie

The Revolution Won't Be Televised

Ask the street poets...

5 average rating
5
French / 110 MIN. / 2016

The Genres

The 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.

The Cast

Khady SyllaCyrille Oumar TouréKarim SamaPape Alioune GadiagaAbdoulaye DialloLanding Mbessane SeckAbdoulaye WadeSafiatou Denise Sow

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