LITTLE SENEGAL European Showcase

The director of DUST OF LIFE, Rachid Bouchareb, has created a thought-provoking film about race, ancestry and family.

After many years as a tourist guide at the Slave Museum in Senegal, Alloune, a 65-year-old widower, decides to go to America in search of his ancestors, who were taken away from his village 200 years before and sold as slaves in the New World. From Charleston to Little Senegal in New York, he searches not only for. his ancestors, but also for an ideal vision of an African family. What he finds is a chasm of distance between the African and African American communities. Rising above the antagonism, a strong bond is built between Alloune and the community of his ancestor’s descendants.

Fueled by arresting performances, especially from Sotigui Kouyate, and a strikingly simple story with complex undertones, LITTLE SENEGAL is a perceptive depiction of one man’s complicated life.