Rotterdam Films

Rijneke & van Leeuwaarden

Dakar-Clando

W.O. M'Baye

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The husband in DAKAR disappeared. Aided by soothsayers and the authorities, the woman of the house and her cousin venture into an intensive search, resulting in an illuminating view of a hypocritical society, dominated by islamic values. At night they find the husband, wasting his money in a clando, a semi clandestine bordello and shebeen.

William Ousmane M’Baye, born 1952 in Dakar, Senegal, is a filmmaker of a new generation from the African continent. He studied at the CICF and the Universtity VII in Paris. He is currently working for Senegalese television as a documentary filmmaker and he has been supported by the Hubert Bals Foundation for a feature, which is in preparation.

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35 mm, 20 min., colour