Synopsis
The fast bus, is the city Taxi-Brousse. It is the symbolic car in Senegal appearing on all the postcards. Originally, they are Renault vehicles, Saviem or Acrobat dating 1960. Major coincidence, they have the same anniversary as the independent Senegal: fifty years of successful collaboration. Technological innovation or art of the resourcefulness, it is what this movie invites to discover.
Credits
Director (1)
Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producer : Ardèche Images
- Co-production : Université Stendhal
- Foreign production company : Université Gaston Berger
- Film exports/foreign sales : Africadoc
Full credits (3)
Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Documentary
- Sub-genre : Auteur documentary
- Themes : Arts and crafts, Economics, Traditions, Transport, Work
- Production language : Wolof
- Coproducer countries : France, Senegal
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Majority French (France, Senegal)
- Production year : 2010
- Runtime : 30 min
- Production formats : DV-CAM
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 16/9
- Audio format : Stereo
- Rating restrictions : None
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🏆 This short film won the César Award 2024 for Best Short Film (Fiction)