Liti Liti
SYNOPSIS
The new train passes through Guinaw-Rails, my childhood kingdom. In silence, the TER rolls over the ruins of the neighborhood. Inside my suburb, backhoes and hammers clatter down on our houses. In this terrible waltz between silence and noise, I accompany my mother at this moment in her life, when 40 years of memories are gradually fading.gine?
Opera prima, Spanish premiere. With the presence of the director.
Why must you see it?
Mamadou Khouma Gueye films the process of his mother’s relocation to the outskirts of Dakar: from Senegal’s dream of capital development to the disillusionment of a utopian independence.
A portrait that navigates through the ruins of the recent past of a country in constant change, heading toward a future increasingly distant from their cultural roots, to comprehend the complexity of African countries and their postcolonial challenges.
Lara Sousa
Mamadou Khouma Gueye
After studying History at Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, I entered film by advocating for cinema access in Dakar’s suburbs before moving into directing. I draw on my generation’s collective energy to create and share our cinema, believing art must include ordinary people and reflect pressing social and political realities.
Year: 2025
Country: France, senegal, Belgium
Length: 76 min
Language: French, Wolof
Subtitles: Spanish, English
Director: Mamadou Khouma Gueye
Production: Aminata Ndao, Rosa Spaliviero
Editor: Geofroy Cernaix Montage
