Little Senegal (film) | |
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Directed by | Rachid Bouchareb |
Written by | Rachid Bouchareb Olivier Lorelle |
Starring |
Sotigui Kouyaté Sharon Hope Roschdy Zem Karim Traoré Adetoro Makinde Adja Diarra Malaaika Lacario |
Release date |
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Running time | 97 minutes |
Countries | Algeria, France, Germany |
Languages | Wolof, English, French, Arabic |
Little Senegal is a 2001 Algerian film directed by Rachid Bouchareb. It was Algeria's submission to the 73rd Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee. [1] [2]
Alloune, a guide at the museum of slavery on the Gorée island of Senegal, decides to go to New York City to look for his descendants who were deported there. [3] His trip takes him from Senegal's fields to Le Petit Senegal in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan, where he finds one person from his family. [4]
The purpose of the movie is to explore the African roots of Black American people who claim African origins but ignore their cultural past. [4] The movie led to the attribution of the name Little Senegal to a district in Upper Manhattan populated with Senegalese and other West African people, located in Harlem on West 116th Street, between Fifth and Eighth Avenues. [3]