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Mahamat-Saleh Haroun's 'Soumsoum, the Night of the Stars' blends magical realism and metaphor, yet struggles to sustain narrative momentum.

‘Dao’ Review: French-Senegalese Master Alain Gomis Builds a Swirling, Ecstatic Family Epic From One Wedding and a Funeral

Alain Gomis's extraordinary sixth feature 'Dao' shimmies restlessly between Europe and Africa, fiction and reality, the ...