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YOUSSOU NDOUR: I BRING WHAT I LOVE

By Elizabeth CHAI VASARHELYI

CELLULOID DREAMS - as SALES All rights, World

Documentary - Completed 2008

- Year of production
- 2008
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- USA
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Duration
- 102 mn
- Director(s)
- Elizabeth CHAI VASARHELYI
- Writer(s)
- Elizabeth CHAI VASARHELYI
- ISAN
- 0000-0003-BFA1-0000-V-0000-0000-I
- Synopsis
- Senegalese pop sensation Youssou Ndour has spent the last 20 years in the spotlight as a world-renowned musician and the iconic representative “voice of Africa”. At the height of his career, Youssou, became frustrated by the negative perception of his Muslim faith and composed Egypt, a deeply spiritual album dedicated to a more tolerant view of Islam.
  It was a critical and career-defining moment. Ndour’s brave musical message was wholeheartedly embraced by Western audiences but ignited serious religious controversy in his homeland of Senegal.
  Combining unprecedented images of Senegal’s most sacred Muslim rituals, vibrant concert performances filmed around the world and intimate access to Ndour and his family, I Bring What I Love chronicles the difficult journey Youssou must undertake to assume his true calling. Youssou Ndour is a voice of hope and tolerance, a modern day moral and political leader whose message transcends music but remains grounded in the universality of faith.