Touki Bouki

Touki Bouki
2005 DVD cover
Directed byDjibril Diop Mambéty
Written byDjibril Diop Mambéty
Starring
  • Magaye Niang
  • Mareme Niang
CinematographyPap Samba Sow
Edited by
  • Siro Asteni
  • Emma Mennenti[1]
Music by
Production
companies
  • Cinegrit
  • Studio Kankourama
Distributed byWorld Cinema Foundation
Release date
  • 1973 (1973)
Running time
95 minutes
CountrySenegal
LanguageWolof
Budget$30,000

Touki Bouki (pronounced [tukki bukki], Wolof for The Journey of the Hyena) is a 1973 Senegalese drama film directed by Djibril Diop Mambéty.[2] It was screened at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival[2][3] and the 8th Moscow International Film Festival.[4]

Touki Bouki was restored in 2008 at Cineteca di Bologna / L'Immagine Ritrovata Laboratory by the World Cinema Foundation.[5] It was selected as the 93rd greatest film of all time by the Sight and Sound Critic's Poll.[6]

  1. ^ "Movie Review - Touki-Bouki - Review/Film; A Dream Of Escape To Paris". The New York Times. 15 February 1991. Retrieved 26 January 2011.
  2. ^ a b "Biography of Djibril DIOP MAMBéTY". African Success. 25 June 2007. Retrieved 26 January 2011.
  3. ^ "Festival de Cannes: Touki Bouki". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 25 January 2011.
  4. ^ "8th Moscow International Film Festival (1973)". MIFF. Archived from the original on 16 January 2013. Retrieved 4 January 2013.
  5. ^ "World Cinema Foundation » Touki Bouki". World Cinema Foundation. Retrieved 25 January 2011.
  6. ^ "The 100 Greatest Films of All Time | Sight & Sound". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 2 September 2012. Retrieved 29 January 2021.