Hyenas

Synopsis

One of the crown jewels in Senegal’s rich narrative film tradition, HYENAS is Djibril Diop Mambéty’s 1994 masterpiece, an elegant, witty and tragic satire that skewers the colonial exploitation of the African continent long after liberation. A Senegalese village has fallen on bad times. The townspeople’s only hope is that an elderly former resident, Linguère, a woman “richer than the World Bank” —will return to save the village from economic despair.

Listed at AFS

Archived on the AFS site between Mon, Jun 27 2022 and Sat, Feb 14 2026, across 6 captures. These dates are inferred from Wayback Machine captures and may not be accurate.