The Revolution Won't Be Televised (2016)
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.
Director: Rama Thiaw
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Khady Sylla as Self |
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Cyrille Oumar Touré as Self |
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Karim Sama as Self |
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Pape Alioune Gadiaga as Self |
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Abdoulaye Diallo as Self |
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Landing Mbessane Seck as Self |
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Abdoulaye Wade as Self |
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Safiatou Denise Sow as Self |
| Camera | Amath Niane | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Antoine de Guili | Sound |
| Sound | Ivan Broussegoutte | Sound |
| Editing | Axel Salvatori-Sinz | Editor |
| Editing | Rama Thiaw | Editor |
| Sound | Keur Gui | Original Music Composer |
| Production | Rama Thiaw | Producer |
| Directing | Rama Thiaw | Director |
| Writing | Rama Thiaw | Writer |
