Canadian Premiere

Afrikki

Filmed in cinéma vérité style between 2011 and 2022, Afrikki recounts a decade of struggles within African civic and artistic movements of the 2010s. 

SYNOPSIS

Filmed in cinéma vérité style between 2011 and 2022, Afrikki recounts a decade of struggles within African civic and artistic movements of the 2010s. Starting in Dakar and the Y'en A Marre movement, with its rooftop and core group of Senegalese journalists and rappers, a generation finds its voice and organizes itself, guided by Frantz Fanon's idea that "each generation must, in relative obscurity, fulfill its mission or betray it." From the outset, for an entire generation of young people, based on their daily experiences, this collective inspires support and embodies their aspiration for a change of paradigms and imaginaries. On the scale of the African continent, Y’en a Marre inspired and then united a pan-African movement: Afrikki.

Theme(s): , Democracy, Social struggle, Sociology

DETAILS

Director | , Gaëlle Le Roy
Year | , 2025
Country | , Burkina Faso, Congo (Republic of the), Senegal
Duration | 90 minutes
Original language | , French, Wolof
Subtitles | , French and english
Image | Gaëlle Le Roy, Nazir Cissé, Stéphane Rossi, Tom Yvanoff
Sound | Vincent Pateau
Editing | Sébastien Touta
Production | Suzanna Lorenz
Distribution | Diarra Meyer-Seck
Animation | Modou Diongue

DIRECTOR

Photo

Gaëlle Le Roy

SEE COMPLETE PROFILE

French-Senegalese historian and filmmaker Gaëlle Le Roy documented the Y’en A Marre movement for a decade. Coordinator and photographer for the Partcours contemporary art collective in Dakar since 2017, she founded AlSo PRODUCTION in 2023 to post-produce her feature documentary Afrikki and develop artistic projects from Senegal.

CAREER

Mention spéciale du jury à Saint-Louis Doc (Sénégal) · Ciné Droit Libres (Abidjan) · Kitale Film Week (Kenya) · Lumières d'Afrique (France) · ENIFF festival (Nigéria)

UPCOMING SCREENINGS

SCREENING 1

30 July 2026 pm31 20h45

Parc Molson 

A discussion will follow the screening.

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