East Baton Rouge Parish Library

Little Senegal, Jean Bréhat et Rachid Bouchareb présentent ; une coproduction 3B Productions [and others] ; avec les participations de Cofimages 11 [and others] ; scénario et dialogues, Olivier Lorelle et Rachid Bouchareb ; un film de Rachid Bouchareb

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videorecording

Little Senegal

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Jean Bréhat et Rachid Bouchareb présentent ; une coproduction 3B Productions [and others] ; avec les participations de Cofimages 11 [and others] ; scénario et dialogues, Olivier Lorelle et Rachid Bouchareb ; un film de Rachid Bouchareb

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An elderly man from Senegal travels to New York City, in hopes of locating African Americans related to his ancestors (many of whom were kidnapped and sold as slaves)After many years as a tourist guide in the Slave museum in Senegal, Alloune, 65, a widower living alone, decides to go to America in search of his ancestors, taken as y from the village 200 years ago and sold as slaves in the New World. From Charleston to Little Senegal, New York, Alloune searches for his ancestors but also for an ideal vision of an African family, only to discover a strong ostracism between African and Afro-American communities. He is embodied by his nephew Hassan, a cab driver and his girlfriend Biram, an African with modern views of love and mariage; and Ida an older woman, faced with seeing her pregnant granddaughter destroyed by drugs and life on the street

live action