Short Films and Mid-Lengths

Short Films and Mid-Lengths

For the cinephile on a time budget.

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Short Films and Mid-Lengths
  • Colobane Express

    Directed by Khady Sylla | 52 mins | 1999
    Losing ground to more modern forms of transit today, the colorfully painted “car rapide” minibuses that criss-cross the crowded streets and avenues of Dakar at breakneck speed carrying passengers and merchandise have been icons of the city since first appe...

  • The Silent Monologue

    Directed by Khady Sylla | 45 mins | 2008
    Khady Sylla’s docudrama inquiry into the lives—inner and exterior—of Dakar’s female domestics, which employs scenes of improvised street theater, direct-address freestyle screeds, candid interviews, and inner monologue musings with the end of allowing its ...