BADOU BOY
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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.
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.
BADOU BOY Direction: Djibril Diop Mambéty, DCP, OmeU, 59 min