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Badou Boy
Badou Boy is a 1970 Senegalese short film, directed by Djibril Diop Mambéty.
The film follows the adventures of Badou Boy, a cheeky young man, as he travels through the streets of Dakar on the city buses.
"Badou Boy" won the Silver Tanit award at the 1970 Carthage Film Festival in Tunisia. It was shown at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival.
Badou Boy remained unseen in the UK until 2006. It was instantly hailed as a lost classic. It premiered at the Africa
Badou Boy aka Bad Boy
Badou Boy aka Bad Boy is a short film set against the backdrop of a bustling Dakar in the late 1960s. "Cop" believes "Boy" is a menace to society but he is merely a street kid trying to survive. As "Boy" leads "Cop" on a chase through the shantytowns to the city centre of Dakar, director Djibril Mambéty gives a nod to Charlie Chaplin's model of silent films. Mambéty was to return again and again to the theme of lonely people