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Cast

Khady Sylla

Khady Sylla

Self

Cyrille Oumar Touré

Cyrille Oumar Touré

Self

Karim Sama

Karim Sama

Self

Pape Alioune Gadiaga

Pape Alioune Gadiaga

Self

Abdoulaye Diallo

Abdoulaye Diallo

Self

Landing Mbessane Seck

Landing Mbessane Seck

Self

Abdoulaye Wade

Abdoulaye Wade

Self

Safiatou Denise Sow

Safiatou Denise Sow

Self

Crew

Rama Thiaw

Rama Thiaw

Editor

Rama Thiaw

Rama Thiaw

Producer

Axel Salvatori-Sinz

Axel Salvatori-Sinz

Editor

Keur Gui

Keur Gui

Original Music Composer

Antoine de Guili

Antoine de Guili

Sound

Amath Niane

Amath Niane

Director of Photography

Ivan Broussegoutte

Ivan Broussegoutte

Sound

Rama Thiaw

Rama Thiaw

Director

Rama Thiaw

Rama Thiaw

Writer

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The Revolution Won't Be Televised

20165.0 / 10110 min
Documentary

Overview

Ask the street poets...

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.