The Revolution Won't Be Televised
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The Revolution Won't Be Televised by Rama Thiaw
SEN 2016, Forum
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The Revolution Won't Be Televised by Rama Thiaw
SEN 2016, Forum
© Boul Fallé Images
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The Revolution Won't Be Televised by Rama Thiaw
SEN 2016, Forum
© Boul Fallé Images
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The Revolution Won't Be Televised by Rama Thiaw
SEN 2016, Forum
© Boul Fallé Images
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Rama Thiaw
The Revolution Won't Be Televised by Rama Thiaw
SEN 2016, Forum
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. The Revolution Won’t Be Televised is a film about a country in the grip of change, in which two thirds of the population are under 25 and long for new beginnings.
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Kilifeu, Rama Thiaw, Thiat
During Q&A.
The Revolution Won't Be Televised · Forum · Feb 18, 2016
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Rama Thiaw, Tamer El Said, Tatiana Huezo
At the award ceremony: The winner in the middle, framed by the director of The Revolution Won't Be Televised and the director of Tempestad who received a Special Mention each.
The Revolution Won't Be Televised · Forum · Caligari Film Prize · Feb 19, 2016
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Kilifeu, Rama Thiaw, Thiat
The winners of the FIPRESCI prize.
The Revolution Won't Be Televised · Forum · Prizes of the Independent Juries · Feb 20, 2016
The Revolution Won't Be Televised
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