Ça Twiste à Poponguine (Twisting in Poponguine)

D: Moussa Sene Absa, Senegal 1993, 90 min, Engl. subtitles

Discussion with the director

The village of Poponguine in Senegal in the 1960s. Youths struck by twist fever shake off centuries’ old traditions. But a dispute between the gangs threatens to destroy their dream of a new future… This African pendant to American Graffiti evokes a time in which Western influences are accepted as long as they suit people and allow them to live out their tender, private dreams of happiness.