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Mille Soleils (A Thousand Suns) 2013

'A Thousand Suns is a portrait of Magaye Niang, the nonprofessional actor who played the lead in the African film classic Touki Bouki, which was directed by Diop’s uncle, Djibril Diop Mambéty. Fusing documentary and fantasy in homage to her uncle’s masterpiece, Diop follows Niang from a screening of that 1973 film to his farm in Senegal as the old man comes to terms with the vanished past he longs for and the future he still hopes is possible.' Film Society Lincoln Center

Please note: this film contains scenes of workers in an abattoir.

45 minutes | Ages 15+

Snow Canon 2011

‘The French Alps, February 2011. Vanina likes to listen to the chalet's wooden floor creaking beneath her bare feet, Vanina likes to rub suntan lotion on her bare skin in front of the stone fireplace, Vanina likes her rabbit Souci's tawny fur, Vanina likes to breathe in the leather scent of the white couch, Vanina likes to spend hours contemplating the charcoal eyes of the veiled women in her postcard collection. Vanina likes to chat with Eloise on Internet. But what Vanina loves is her American babysitter, Mary Jane…’ Documenta Madrid

‘Snow Canon is built upon associations and correspondences of ideas and images. I filmed the girls as a landscape in mutation, and the mountains as the interior space of the two main characters. They are distant, inaccessible and yet captivating: as unattainable as the desire and its temporality which are the subject of the film.’ Mati Diop

33 minutes | Ages 15+