When Ibrahim (Makhouredia Gueye), an unemployed young man in Dakar, receives a huge money order from his nephew in Paris, word travels fast. But when Ibrahim tries to cash it in, he finds a thousand bureaucratic obstacles stand between him and his money… 

Senegalese writer-director Ousmane Sembène was once asked if his films were understood in Europe. ‘Let’s be clear,’ he replied. ‘Europe is not my centre. Europe is the outskirts.’ With this startlingly funny but clear-eyed 1968 satire on post-independence African nations, the first feature to be shot in an African language (Wolof), Sembène invited the world to reorient itself towards his continent while simultaneously ‘restor[ing] Africa’s stories to Africans’. Winner of the Grand Jury prize at the Venice Film Festival, Sembène’s adaptation of his own novella set a radical new course for African cinema – and is here presented in a stunning new 4K restoration.

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