
Movie
The Revolution Won't Be Televised
Ask the street poets...
20161h 50m5.0out of 103 votes
When President Abdoulaye Wade wanted to run for office yet again in 2011, a resistance movement formed on the streets. Shortly afterwards, a group of school friends, including rappers Thiat and Kilifeu, set up "Y'en a marre" ("We Are Fed Up"), with filmmaker Rama Thiaw soon coming on board to start documenting events – meetings, campaigns, arrests, concerts, states of exhaustion, trips – from an "insider" perspective. Over several years, a stirring portrait emerged of a youth protest movement to whom independent observers were not the only ones to ascribe the role of "kingmaker" in the last elections. Rama Thiaw shows the rappers and their environment with an intimacy whose cinematographic finesse provides space and context for the thorny conflicts between music and politics, street and state.
Directed by Rama Thiaw
Your score–
Not scoredVideos
1 clips
TrailerOfficial Trailer
Images
Cast
Related

To Be Takei

Beyoncé: Life Is But a Dream

Heart of a Dog

Feminists: What Were They Thinking?

Love, Marilyn

Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction

In the Realms of the Unreal

Come See Me in the Good Light

Cameraperson

Seduced and Abandoned

Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds

I Am Ali

The Decline of Western Civilization Part III

Fuck

The Curse of the Dragon

Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return
