Ami Diakhate (as Linguere Ramatou) and Mansour Diouf (as Dramaan) in Hyenas, a film by Djibril Diop Mambéty , a Metrograph Pictures release (all images courtesy Metrograph Pictures) The cinema of ...

Watch the beautiful trailer for Djibril Diop Mambéty's second and last feature, 'Hyenas', which has been newly restored for re-release. Senegalese filmmaker Djibril Diop Mambéty made his mark on ...

Despite having made only two features and a handful of shorts, Senegalese director Djibril Diop Mambéty is an influential figure in African cinema, particularly thanks to the offbeat classic Touki ...

Kathy Geritz, film curator at Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive, discusses the films of Senegalese director Djibril Diop Mambety with host Richard Wolinsky. A series of films by and about the ...

Djibril Diop Mambéty (January 1945 – July 23, 1998) was a Senegalese film director, actor, orator, composer and poet. Though he made only two feature films and five short films, they received ...

Film restoration may be the most underappreciated field in the movie world. The films that need reviving are often old films that haven’t been taken care of in the most delicate way, leading to damage ...

The far-from-prolific Senegalese director Djibril Diop Mambety (1945-98) made only two features and a number of shorts in three decades of filmmaking (he was working on a third feature when he died), ...

Between true life and cinema,” said the late Senegalese director Djibril Diop Mambety, “there is only one step.” Then he added, wryly, “As for me, I’m not sure in which direction that step must be ...

Fantasies are as revealing of character as material circumstances are, and since movies themselves are fantasies, they offer diagnostic cross sections of the inner lives of those who make and watch ...