The young shepherd Mory takes cattle to the slaughterhouse, rides through Dakar on his decorated motorcycle and meets the student Anna. Together they dream of Paris and try to earn the money for the crossing with little scams.
Director: Djibril Diop Mambéty, Senegal 1973, 91 minutes, 35mm,
Original version with German subtitles, original language: Wolof
An insane, rousing, bursting-at-the-seams sketch about the African fascination with the promises of the Western world.
This is also reflected in the whirling style of the autodidact Mambéty: Touki Bouki, Wolof for The Journey of the Hyena, combines film noir and nouvelle vague, comedy and social criticism and is an antithesis to the large-scale sell-out in the blaxploitation cinema that was thriving at the same time.
In the bright colors of the 70s, Touki Bouki impetuously defies all narrative conventions. Anything goes!
In the supporting program: Cassis
Director: Jonas Mekas, USA 1966, 6 minutes, 16mm, without dialogue
