Art Cinema · Senegal
Moussa Sene
Absa
“To film is to listen to what the light doesn't say right away.”
Filmmaker, painter, and storyteller, Moussa Sene Absa has captured the soul of Senegal since 1989. Discover a rare filmography, available exclusively.
Editorial Portrait
Dakar, 2024
N°01Archive
20+
Directed Films
Features & shorts
35
Years
Since 1989
12
Awards
FESPACO, Cannes
24h
Access
By rental
Selection
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N°02 · Director's note
A cinema of
transmission
From Yoonu Yoor to Teranga, Moussa Sene Absa films the intimacy of Senegalese families, the memory of the griots, the peculiar light that falls on Dakar between four and six in the afternoon.
His camera is patient. It's a cinema of listening — and of teranga, that Wolof hospitality that no English word can quite translate.