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The Revolution Won't Be Televised

The Revolution Won't Be Televised

Score: 5.0

Genre: Documentary

Year: 2016-02-17

When President Abdoulaye Wade wanted to run for office yet again in 2011, a resistance movement formed on the streets. Shortly afterwards, a group of school friends, including rappers Thiat and Kilifeu, set up "Y'en a marre" ("We Are Fed Up"), with filmmaker Rama Thiaw soon coming on board to start documenting events – meetings, campaigns, arrests, concerts, states of exhaustion, trips – from an "insider" perspective. Over several years, a stirring portrait emerged of a youth protest movement to whom independent observers were not the only ones to ascribe the role of "kingmaker" in the last elections. Rama Thiaw shows the rappers and their environment with an intimacy whose cinematographic finesse provides space and context for the thorny conflicts between music and politics, street and state.

Actors:

Khady Sylla

Khady Sylla

Cyrille Oumar Touré

Cyrille Oumar Touré

Karim Sama

Karim Sama

Pape Alioune Gadiaga

Pape Alioune Gadiaga

Abdoulaye Diallo

Abdoulaye Diallo

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