

The Revolution Won't Be Televised
Ask the street poets...
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.
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- Theatrical17 Feb 2016
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- The Revolution Won't Be Televised was released on 17 February 2016.
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- Who directed The Revolution Won't Be Televised?
- The Revolution Won't Be Televised (2016) was directed by Rama Thiaw.
- How long is The Revolution Won't Be Televised?
- The Revolution Won't Be Televised runs for 1h 50m.













