Cinema at the Museum: Touki Bouki

Name: Cinema at the Museum: Touki Bouki
Start: 2025-08-29T19:00:00-06:00
Location: 102 Spadina Cres East, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, Saskatchewan S7K 0L3

Schedule

Fri, 29 Aug, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

102 Spadina Cres East, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, Saskatchewan S7K 0L3 | Saskatoon, SK

This August, Cinema at the Museum presents a series of international films that highlight the stories and perspectives of filmmakers from around the world. These movies geographically and thematically travel through various cinematic lenses to examine overarching themes of identity, displacement, creative imprisonment, oppression, freedom, and social inequality.
Friday, August 29, 7 PM
Film: Touki Bouki
Director: Djibril Diop Mambéty
Year: 1973
Runtime: 91 minutes
Country: Senegal
Rating: N/A (Contains depictions of animal butchery)
Mory, a cowherd, and Anta, a university student, try to make money in order to go to Paris and leave their boring pasts behind.
Presented in Wolof with English subtitles.
Special thanks to Janus Films for assisting with this screening.
Film tickets are $10 at the front desk; free admission for members and youth under 18. Seating is first come, first served. Talks, tours and other events are admission by donation or free with membership.