Mama Bobo is a widow in her 80's. Day in day out she heads towards the Gomis street bus stop, in Dakar, Senegal. While sitting on the bus stop's bench she recollects her past life and her long gone husband. One day the bus stop disappears into thin air… Her family and neighbours try their best to get Mama Bobo back on her feet, before it's too late.

A film by Robin ANDELFINGER, Ibrahima SEYDI

France / Belgium / Senegal, 2017, short narrative, 17 min., French / Wolof subs

starring Maguette Diakhaté, Seynabou Ndiaye Faye, Amineta Mbaye

directed jointly by Robin Luc Andelfinger and Ibrahima Seydi.

Producers: Quentin Daniel, Pierre-Yves Le Cunff

Directors: Robin Andelfinger, Ibrahima Seydi
Screenwriter: Robin Andelfinger, Ibrahima Seydi
Director of Photography: Benjamin Morel
Editor: Denis Leborgne
Composer: Abdoulaye Hane
Sound Designer: Guillaume Martin

Franco-Belgian-Senegalese production
Production Companies: Wombat Films, Replica, Hermano Productions

Sélections
Festival El Gouna, Egypte (September 2017)
Festival International du Film Francophone de Namur, Belgique (October 2017)
Festival du film court Francophone de Vaux en Velin, en compétition (January 2018)
Festival international du court métrage de Clermont Ferrand - section Regards d'Afrique, hors compétition (February 2018)

2017 | 1st El Gouna Film Festival - GFF 2017, Egypt
* Première Mondiale / World premiere
* Won: El Gouna Bronze Star for Short Film in competition
"This film showed us a strong African community and how one person's repetitive journey is the only thing that keeps them going" said the jurors while awarding the film. The award was received by Ibrahima Seydi, co-director of the film that had its world premiere at GFF.