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Touki Bouki is a 1973 Senegalese drama film, directed by Djibril Diop Mambety. It was shown at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival and the 8th Moscow International Film Festival.
Based on his own story and script, Djibril Diop Mambety made Touki Bouki with a budget of $30,000 - obtained in part from the Senegalese government. Though influenced by French New Wave, Touki Bouki displays a style all its own. Its camerawork and soundtrack have a frenetic rhythm uncharacteristic of most African films - known for their often deliberately slow-paced, linearly evolving narratives. Through jump cuts, colliding montage, dissonant sonic accompaniment, and the juxtaposition of premodern, pastoral and modern sounds and visual elements, Touki Bouki conveys and grapples with the hybridization of Senegal.