Touki Bouki

Evading legal ruin as they con their way towards Europe, two lovers tear across Dakar on a Zebu-horned motorcycle. Manic and meditative, this fractured narrative combines French New Wave form with West African Griot poeticism.

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Touki Bouki was restored in 2008 by the Cineteca di Bologna/L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory, in association with The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project and the family of director Djibril Diop Mambéty. Restoration funded by Armani, Cartier, Qatar Airways, and Qatar Museum Authority.