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A Thousand Suns

44m

Directed by Mati Diop • 2013 • France, Senegal
Starring Magaye Niang, Wasis Diop

Forty years after her uncle Djibril Diop Mambéty's landmark of Senegalese cinema TOUKI BOUKI, Mati Diop revisits its lead actor, Magaye Niang, to explore the legacy of a film that continues to loom large.

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