Catalogue des films de « Laurence Attali »

On December 17, 1962, Mamadou Dia, President of the Senegalese Council of Ministers, was arrested and then given a life sentence, accused of a coup d'état by his friend and companion Leopold Sedar Senghor. He would be imprisoned with four of...

Filmed by her son, this is the portrait of Annette Mbaye d’Erneville, also known as "Mère-bi" (Mother). Originally trained to become a teacher, she moved to Paris after the war, formed ties with the African intelligentsia and studied...

A film's genesis and metamorphoses, from the first intuition to the first clapboard. From Tom Waits to Cheikh Lô ... and from Venice to Paris, on to Saint Louis in Senegal, this documentary travels the river's stream in search of the Unshod...

Le Déchaussé est une histoire d'amour à trois personnages : le chanteur, la violoniste et le souffle d'un esprit amoureux, incarné dans le son d'une trompette. Ben le trompettiste meurt sur scène devant sa femme et son frère Booz, tous deux...

It all started with a dream : " It's time for you to try to explain the mysteries! Find the griot who'll bring you to me, and when you recognize me, circle around me three times, caress me with buttermilk, and let me know what you want!" That's...

L’amour léger comme le vent ... "Même le vent qui traverse, je le vois !" lance le chauffeur de taxi à la belle saxophoniste. FICTION : FAIT PARTIE DE "LA TRILOGIE DES AMOURS" 1/ MÊME LE VENT(1999) 2/BAOBAB (2000) 3/LE DÉCHAUSSÉ (2003)

This film tries to break through the Senegalese sculptors’ universe

They say that when God had finished kneading the earth and its continents, he rubbed his hands with satisfaction and the crumbs that fell into the sea gave us the Cape Verde Islands. Ten islands of Africa, daughters of the sea and wind like...

They say that when God had finished kneading the earth and its continents, he rubbed his hands with satisfaction and the crumbs that fell into the sea formed the Cape Verde Islands. "Desenrasca Bô Vida" as the Cape Verdeans say. It means : "Make...

Film-director, journalist, actor, photographer and unemployed, Amet Diallo was 41 and lived in Senegal. As he came out of the jazz cine-club that he compèred, he fell the 18th Oct. 1994 in a street in Dakar, choked by an attack of asthma. Here,...