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Touki Bouki

Dir. Djibril Diop Mambéty
LIFF Spotlights - WE GOTTA GET OUT OF THIS PLACE
Mon 10 Nov - 18:30
Everyman Cinema Leeds, Leeds
Screen 4
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Mon 10 Nov
18:30
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Restless young lovers Mory and Anta roam Dakar on a horn-adorned motorbike, scheming to escape Senegal for a dreamlike Paris, in this landmark of African cinema.

Djibril Diop Mambéty’s Touki Bouki fuses surreal imagery, frenetic editing, and bursts of colour and sound into a feverish road movie. Blending oral tradition with an avant-garde style, the film captures both the disillusion of post-independence Senegalese society and the intoxicating pull of imagined freedom.

Restored in 2008 by The World Cinema Foundation at Cineteca di Bologna/L’Immagine Ritrovata in association with the family of Djibril Diop Mambéty. Restoration funding provided by Armani, Cartier, Qatar Airways and Qatar Museum Authority.

"...beautiful, magical, and prophetic." — Kanishk Devgan, Film Companion

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Contains scenes of animal slaughter.

Touki Bouki

Director Djibril Diop Mambéty
Running time 85 mins
Production year 1973
Country Senegal
Language Wolof, Arabic, French
Courtesy of Cineteca

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