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Dent Pour Dent

Sat, May 25, 2024
    Part of
  • FilmAfrica
  • and
  • DanceAfrica Festival 2024
Directed by Ottis Ba Mamadou (2022)
With Aida Ndeye, AidaraIbrahima Ndiaye Cisse, Jean Pierre Correa

In this comedic drama from director Otiss Ba Mamadou, Idrissa, a man living in the suburbs of Dakar, loses his job as a civil servant with the IMF. After months of unsuccessful job hunting, a disillusioned and emasculated Idrissa decides to enact revenge on the man responsible for letting him go. All the while, his daughter also finds her life disrupted by the economic realities of Senegal.

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      RUNNING TIME

      84min

      VENUE

      Peter Jay Sharp Building
      BAM Rose Cinemas

      LANGUAGE

      In French with English Subtitles

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