A Thousand Suns

In 1972 Djibril Diop Mambety made a film. The film was called Touki Bouki. In it were two young people, Mory and Anta. The two of them were in love. They shared the same dream. They wanted to leave Dakar for Paris. At the moment of parting Anta boarded the ship. Mory stayed on the quay. He could not tear himself from his land. Forty years later this documentary was made. Magaye Niang, who played Mory, is still in Dakar. He never left. Now, grown old, he wonders where Anta is. The film puts family, exile and cinema together. Magaye Niang appears in the forty five minute documentary, a French and Senegalese co-production Mati Diop finished in 2013.