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The Revolution Won't Be Televised (2016)

ALL 02/17/2016 (wo) Documentary 110 Min
  • Release
    02/17/2016
  • Production
    Boul Fallé Images
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  • Original title
    The Revolution Won't Be Televised
  • Original language
    wo
  • Production Cost
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Ask the street poets...

Overview

When President Abdoulaye Wade wanted to run for office yet again in 2011, a resistance movement formed on the streets. Shortly afterwards, a group of school friends, including rappers Thiat and Kilifeu, set up "Y'en a marre" ("We Are Fed Up"), with filmmaker Rama Thiaw soon coming on board to start documenting events – meetings, campaigns, arrests, concerts, states of exhaustion, trips – from an "insider" perspective. Over several years, a stirring portrait emerged of a youth protest movement to whom independent observers were not the only ones to ascribe the role of "kingmaker" in the last elections. Rama Thiaw shows the rappers and their environment with an intimacy whose cinematographic finesse provides space and context for the thorny conflicts between music and politics, street and state.

  1. Rama Thiaw

    Director

  2. Story

  4. Rama Thiaw

    Producer



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The Revolution Won't Be Televised (2016) 110 Min

ALL 02/17/2016 (wo)
Documentary
  • Release 02/17/2016
  • Production
    Boul Fallé Images
  • Original title The Revolution Won't Be Televised
  • wo
  • Revenue0.00

Ask the street poets...

Overview

When President Abdoulaye Wade wanted to run for office yet again in 2011, a resistance movement formed on the streets. Shortly afterwards, a group of school friends, including rappers Thiat and Kilifeu, set up "Y'en a marre" ("We Are Fed Up"), with filmmaker Rama Thiaw soon coming on board to start documenting events – meetings, campaigns, arrests, concerts, states of exhaustion, trips – from an "insider" perspective. Over several years, a stirring portrait emerged of a youth protest movement to whom independent observers were not the only ones to ascribe the role of "kingmaker" in the last elections. Rama Thiaw shows the rappers and their environment with an intimacy whose cinematographic finesse provides space and context for the thorny conflicts between music and politics, street and state.

  1. Rama Thiaw

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Axel Salvatori-Sinz, Rama Thiaw

    Editor

  4. Rama Thiaw

    Producer



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