Tauw (Short 1970)

Tauw: Directed by Ousmane Sembene. A young unemployed man fends off accusations of laziness and makes a home for his pregnant girlfriend who has been rejected by her family.

“The film has a pedagogical undertone – and it was financed by an official Senegal institution of education. There is an overtly didactic passage on the necessity of finding work, filmed as a kind of dream. There are, however, also some sumptuous photography and various scenes of Tauw and two of his friends walking through the streets of Dakar with a perfect music score underneath the pictures. These are the moments when this obvious tale turns into cinema.”