Souleymane Seye Ndiaye

TIFF 2013: Under the Starry Sky Review

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Under the Starry Sky Contemporary World Cinema Director: Dyana Gaye The lives of several Senegalese ex-pats and travellers around the world are brought together in this compact, but very enriching drama in Gaye’s feature debut. It accomplishes more in 88 minutes that many more celebrated filmmakers have trouble accomplishing in more than two hours. Sophie […]

La Pirogue Review

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While most likely faithful to the hardship face by African immigrants attempting to escape to Europe on dangerous fishing boats, La Pirogue suffers from a lack of character that it can't quite overcome.