The Revolution Won't Be Televised

Overview

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

February 17, 2016

Original language

Wolof

Spoken languages

French, Wolof

Countries

Senegal

Production

Doc Society,Boul Fallé Images

Cast

Safiatou Denise Sow,Abdoulaye Diallo,Cyrille Oumar Touré,Landing Mbessane Seck,Abdoulaye Wade,Pape Alioune Gadiaga,Khady Sylla,Karim Sama

Director

Rama Thiaw

Writer

Rama Thiaw

Producer

Rama Thiaw

Cinematography

Amath Niane

Music

Keur Gui

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt5490440