The Revolution Won't Be Televised (2016)
The Revolution Won't Be Televised (2016)
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.

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Khady Sylla Khady Sylla As: Self
Cyrille Oumar Touré Cyrille Oumar Touré As: Self
Karim Sama Karim Sama As: Self
Pape Alioune Gadiaga Pape Alioune Gadiaga As: Self
Abdoulaye Diallo Abdoulaye Diallo As: Self
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Storyline

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.


Tagline: Ask the street poets...
Certification: Unknown

Details

Genres: Documentary

Language: Français, Wolof

Release Date: 17 February 2016

Country: SN

Runtime: 110m

Company Credits

Company: Boul Fallé Images

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Cast

Directed By

Rama Thiaw

Rama Thiaw

Director

Writing Credits

Production Crew

Rama Thiaw

Rama Thiaw

Producer

Edited By

Costume and Makeup

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Sound

Antoine de Guili

Antoine de Guili

Sound

Ivan Broussegoutte

Ivan Broussegoutte

Sound

Keur Gui

Keur Gui

Original Music Composer

Visual Effects

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Camera

Amath Niane

Amath Niane

Director of Photography

Lighting

Not currently known.

Art Department

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Other Crew

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