Hyenas

Hyenes, feature film, Senegal, 1992

DIRECTED BY: Djibril Diop Mambéty

Hyenas

CAST:
Mansour Diouf,
Ami Diakhate,
Mahouredia Gueye,
Issa Samb Ramagelissa

SCRIPT:
Djibril Diop Mambéty

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Matthias Kälin

Synopsis:
There is unbelievable news for the people of Coloban: Linguere Ramatou has become a billionaire and is returning home. Draman Drameh, Linguere’s former lover immediately comes to her. At a big party Linguere Ramatou announces that she will donate a large sum of money to the town if they sacrifice her lover who had betrayed her.

Festivals, awards: Cannes, Locarno, New York, Carthage, Brussels

Director’s statement:
To the question of whether there is any sense in creating a new phenomenon in the abundance of phenomena, Mambéty responds: What we call film is merely a discovery of perpetual possibilities of dark. I say dark because everything is born from the night and film is openness against the dark. That will always be useful.

35 mm, color, 110 min