BADOU BOY & CONTRAS’ CITY

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BADOU BOY

R: Djibril Diop Mambéty; Senegal 1970; OmeU; DCP; 59 min.

CONTRAS’ CITY

R: Djibril Diop Mambéty; Senegal 1968; OmeU; DCP; 22 min.

BADOU BOY, ein schelmischer junger Mann, versucht in den chaotischen Straßen von Dakar einem korrupten Polizeibeamten und seinen Rivalen zu entkommen. Mit einer Verfolgungsjagd durch die Arbeiterviertel bis ins Zentrum von Dakar wirft Djibril Diop Mambéty einen kritischen Blick auf die vom Westen beeinflusste Gesellschaft Dakars in den 1960er-Jahren und rückt die Menschen am Rande dieser Gesellschaft in den Mittelpunkt. In Form einer Mockumentary porträtiert CONTRAS‘ CITY die senegalesische Hauptstadt, eine Stadt voller Kontraste, durch ein Gespräch zwischen einem Senegalesen, Mambéty, und einer Französin, Inge Hirschnitz.

In BADOU BOY, a mischievous young man, tries to escape from a corrupt police officer and his rivals in the chaotic streets of Dakar. Djibril Diop Mambéty takes a critical look at Dakar’s Western-influenced society in the 1960s with a chase through the working-class neighbourhoods to the centre of Dakar, focusing on the people on the margins of this society. In the form of a mockumentary, CONTRAS’ CITY portrays the Senegalese capital, a city of contrasts, through a conversation between a Senegalese man, Mambéty, and a French woman, Inge Hirschnitz.

BADOU BOY: 4K digital restoration by The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project and Cineteca di Bologna at L’Immagine Ritrovata and L’Image Retrouvée laboratories in association with Teemour Mambéty. Restoration funded by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation. This restoration is part of the African Film Heritage Project, an initiative created by The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project, the Pan African Federation of Filmmakers and UNESCO – in collaboration with Cineteca di Bologna – to help locate, restore, and disseminate African cinema.
CONTRAS’ CITY: Restored in 2020 by Cineteca di Bologna/L’Immagine Ritrovata and The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project in association with The Criterion Collection. Funding provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation. This restoration is part of the African Film Heritage Project, an initiative created by The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project, the Pan African Federation of Filmmakers and UNESCO – in collaboration with Cineteca di Bologna – to help locate, restore, and disseminate African cinema.