Name: "Touki Bouki" film screening
Start: 2025-09-15T20:00:00+03:00
Location: Home for Cooperation

🪭Some cool films for the summer heat
We continue our Summer Programme with the Open-air film screenings at the Home for Cooperation Cafe on the Mondays of September
1️⃣Monday - 15.09 - 20:00 - “Touki Bouki”
2️⃣Monday - 22.09 - 20:00 - “Dog Day Afternoon”
3️⃣Monday - 25.09 - 20:00 - “Do the Right Thing”
We will continue with our normal film screenings at Pantheon in October!
🎟️ Tickets: €5 / 240tl
🗣️English and Greek subtitles
** First come, first served **
There are a limited number of sits, so to ensure you find a sit, arrive earlier!
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Djibril Diop Mambéty’s Touki Bouki isn’t just a landmark of Senegalese cinema, but it’s a radical statement about desire, identity, and post‑colonial consciousness that forever reshaped the language of African film. Made on a shoestring budget in 1973, the movie blends jump‑cut editing, pop‑music montages, and surreal imagery to mirror the fragmented dreams of a generation caught between traditional roots and modern temptations. This bold aesthetic - often compared to (but never derivative of) the French New Wave - announces Mambéty as a visionary who could translate internal restlessness into visual rhythm.