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The Souls of Fouta
Fiction
In a Senegalese village, Penda and Moustapha have lost their 17-year-old son to an overdose. Despite his grief, Moustapha makes a radical decision: his son will not be buried in the family cemetery, because the reasons for his death render his soul impure. Penda will have to find a solution on her own if her son is to rest in peace with her, against all odds.
Six feet over
Fiction
The son of a former Algerian diplomat, Sofiane has lived his life abroad. Now a student in Lyon, he is the victim of an administrative decision and lives under the threat of expulsion. In the hope of regularising his situation, he decided to work temporarily for a Muslim funeral home. His identity is at odds with his own, and he feels badly about himself, but rubbing shoulders with the dead turns out to be a path of enlightenment for him.
Dent Pour Dent
Fiction
Idrissa lives in the suburbs of Dakar, Senegal. He lost his job as a civil servant as a result of budgetary restrictions ordered by the IMF. The day his redundancy pay runs out, he is forced to live at the expense of his wife Viviane. He then looks for any way he can to regain the pride he feels he’s lost…