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The Gaston Berger University in Senegal has nearly five thousands students. The University canteen assures all these people their daily food. It is a food chain operating each day from the early hours of daybreak until the twilight of dusk. The film reveals the slow and meticulous transformation of food, but also the bodies at work of the individuals of both sexes who prepare and serve the meals.
Sin títuloIn autumn of 2000, the United Nations' General Assembly adopted the Millennium Declaration, a list of 8 goals which would provide sustained economic development in the third world. The second goal, to achieve universal primary education, has proven a contentious issue in the ethnically diverse country of Senegal. Our documentary investigates the myriad challenges facing both the UN and local authorities as they struggle to realise their ambitions by the international deadline of 2015. Prior to the 2010 review summit, we travelled to Senegal's capital Dakar to examine the progress and achievability of the Millennium goals.
In Saint-Louis, Senegal, it is customary to bring offerings to the water spirits when a child gets born. They traditionally make offering to the Spirit of the River. The building of infrastructures for water mastery has endangered the delta environment in the beginning of the 1980s. And populations are suffering.
Sin títuloAt the height of French colonial expansion in West Africa, Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba (re)created a theoretical and practical model of submission to the Real that provided an effective alternative to the power structure, which limited and was limited by the colonial invader. The model or path founded by the Sheikh (the Muridiyya) is based on an Islamic premise according to which knowing is an act of love for each and every thing in creation and for the relationships between them: this is why not the heart, not the brain, is the organ of knowledge. Now, the echoes of Bamba’s loving experience migrate through his followers, the Mourides, who came from African lands and now live among us, perfuming the space, opening us up, and activating memory within us, inviting us to travel along the path of presences towards the One and Only. To migrate is thus to return to oneself. Dhikr ceremony [Remembrance] To conclude, the Baye Fall community invites us to attend and participate in a Dhikr ceremony. The remembrance of Allah (Dhikr or Zikr) is the main task of Sufi schools. “Recordar”, the Spanish word for remembering, comes from the Latin recordari and in some places it means to awaken, to stop sleeping and journey back through the heart (cor), to summon something to mind and invoke somebody's presence.
This documentary explores migration to Spain from the Senegalese point of view.
Maam Kumba Bang is the spirit of the waters of the island of Saint Louis. Its mysterious and mythical presence governs the city and river and the collective imagination has built up a vivid picture around it. But only a few people can say that they have met this divinity. The film, through some accounts, re-evokes this ancient legend which continues to live.
A conversation at the microMeeting de Ru'a [visions] at the CCCBA. 05.17.2013 "Knowing the West with my own eyes ... Despite globalization, we never see images of the white man working ... We see that he is in a hurry, but who cleans his streets? ... My grandfather told me that the white man He deceives us, tells us that we are poor, but we are not! What happens is that he only knows one level of wealth, the most basic, the most ephemeral and material ... For him, everything that is not visible is madness or superstition ... "
