THE CEMETERY OF CINEMA

AU CIMETIERE DE LA PELLICULE

By Thierno Souleymane DIALLO

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Documentary - Completed 2023

A delightful and modern Don Quixote tale

Festivals
& Awards

Berlinale - Berlin IFF 2023
Panorama Panorama Documentary Audience Award Third Prize
Fespaco 2023
Competition
    • Year of production
    • 2023
    • Genres
    • Documentary, Road movie, First film
    • Countries
    • FRANCE, SENEGAL, GUINEA, SAUDI ARABIA
    • Languages
    • FRENCH, WOLOF
    • Duration
    • 93 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Thierno Souleymane DIALLO
    • Synopsis
    • In 1953, Mamadou Touré directed the film “Mouramani”, a film considered as the first ever made by a black French-speaking director.
      However, the mystery remains. No one knows where to find a print, neither if one even exists.
      “The Cemetery of Cinema” is the search for that film, also an ode to cinema, both the kind we watch and the kind we make.
      A road-movie from east to west, north to south, a film full of love, humor and tenderness towards his peers and the new generation to come but also a quest as Souleymane marches with a sign demanding “Mouramani”’s return...