Directing

Moussa Sène Absa

Moussa Sène Absa was born in 1958 in Senegal. After starting a career as an actor, he has won awards for his short films, documentaries, and features. He is also a painter and author. He exemplifies the “homo senegalensis”, an ideal of an artist, which was dear to Léopold Sédar Senghor, rooted in tradition but fully willing to use what the Western world has to offer. Ironically, Absa is more famou…

Known For

Hyenas

MovieDramaComedy

A now-rich woman returns to her poor desert hometown to propose a deal to the populace: her fortune, in exchange for the death of the man who years earlier abandoned her and left her with his child.

Xalé

MovieDramaThriller

Awa, a 15-year-old schoolgirl, is happily living her teenage years alongside her twin brother Adama who dreams of Europe. When their grandmother dies, her aunt Fatou and her uncle Atoumane promise to marry in order to preserve the family union. But Fatou does not love Atoumane and the latter, tired of waiting to consummate his marriage, commits an act from which there is no going back.

Madame Brouette

Madame Brouette · 2002

Madame Brouette

MovieDramaRomance

Mati, a divorced mother of a young daughter, makes a living selling bric-a-bric from a wheelbarrow and dreams of opening a snack bar. But she falls for the charms of Naago, a cop, and it's only when the Tajaboom festival (at which women and men switch roles) arrives that her opportunity for escape emerges.

And So Angels Die

And So Angels Die · 2001

And So Angels Die

A Senegalese man living in Paris with his French wife and children receives a letter from his father back home saying he has arranged for him to take a second wife. The man's indecision outrages his French wife and leads to the end of his marriage, his return to Senegal and his reflection about how his life has ended up.

10,000 Years of Cinema

10,000 Years of Cinema · 1991

10,000 Years of Cinema

MovieDocumentary

This documentary offers the reflections of filmmakers shot at FESPACO 1991. Djibril Diop Mambéty, David Achkar, Moussa Sene Absa, Mambaye Coulibaly, Idrissa Ouedraogo, Mansour Sora Wade... express their faith in the eternity of African cinema.

Téranga Blues

Téranga Blues · 2007

A kind of Dakar rap musical, or contemporary urban opera, Teranga Blues is a reflection on the social mutations affecting the pride of the Senegalese people. It is surreal, lyrical, carnivalesque . . . and real. It shows how the opening and closing of the border has transformed the lives of the young.

Blues pour une diva

Blues pour une diva · 1999

Blues pour une diva

MovieDocumentary

Black and White

Black and White · 2020

Black and White

A saga in four episodes that plunges us into the Dakar of the end of the 1930s and up to 1960. A story of passion at a time when life was lived to the rhythm of love, hate and war.

Filmography

Sort

Hyenas

MovieDramaComedy

A now-rich woman returns to her poor desert hometown to propose a deal to the populace: her fortune, in exchange for the death of the man who years earlier abandoned her and left her with his child.

First Assistant Director

Xalé

MovieDramaThriller

Awa, a 15-year-old schoolgirl, is happily living her teenage years alongside her twin brother Adama who dreams of Europe. When their grandmother dies, her aunt Fatou and her uncle Atoumane promise to marry in order to preserve the family union. But Fatou does not love Atoumane and the latter, tired of waiting to consummate his marriage, commits an act from which there is no going back.

Writer

Madame Brouette

Madame Brouette · 2002

Madame Brouette

MovieDramaRomance

Mati, a divorced mother of a young daughter, makes a living selling bric-a-bric from a wheelbarrow and dreams of opening a snack bar. But she falls for the charms of Naago, a cop, and it's only when the Tajaboom festival (at which women and men switch roles) arrives that her opportunity for escape emerges.

Director

And So Angels Die

And So Angels Die · 2001

And So Angels Die

A Senegalese man living in Paris with his French wife and children receives a letter from his father back home saying he has arranged for him to take a second wife. The man's indecision outrages his French wife and leads to the end of his marriage, his return to Senegal and his reflection about how his life has ended up.

Director

10,000 Years of Cinema

10,000 Years of Cinema · 1991

10,000 Years of Cinema

MovieDocumentary

This documentary offers the reflections of filmmakers shot at FESPACO 1991. Djibril Diop Mambéty, David Achkar, Moussa Sene Absa, Mambaye Coulibaly, Idrissa Ouedraogo, Mansour Sora Wade... express their faith in the eternity of African cinema.

Téranga Blues

Téranga Blues · 2007

A kind of Dakar rap musical, or contemporary urban opera, Teranga Blues is a reflection on the social mutations affecting the pride of the Senegalese people. It is surreal, lyrical, carnivalesque . . . and real. It shows how the opening and closing of the border has transformed the lives of the young.

Director

Blues pour une diva

Blues pour une diva · 1999

Blues pour une diva

MovieDocumentary

Director

Black and White

Black and White · 2020

Black and White

A saga in four episodes that plunges us into the Dakar of the end of the 1930s and up to 1960. A story of passion at a time when life was lived to the rhythm of love, hate and war.

Director