‘SCREENING “THE REVOLUTION WON’T BE TELEVISED”’

Documentary film by Rama Thiaw (Senegal), 2016, 110 min.

“The Revolution Won’t Be Televised” begins in January 2012, in Dakar, when President  Abdoulaye Wade succeeds in amending the Senegalese Constitution so that he can run for a third term. A bid for power that provokes a major protest movement, initiated by three rapper friends, Thiat, Kilifeu and Gadiaga. The film looks back on this unique popular movement that takes the name “Y en a marre” [Fed Up!] and that is continuing to this day. 

“The Revolution Won’t Be Televised” won the FIPRESCI Prize and Special Mention by the Caligari Jury at the 2016 Berlinale.
A question and answer session will follow the screening. 

FOOD TRUCK ‘Bananes Plantains’
18:30-22:30