The Revolution Won't Be Televised
2016, Wolof. Directed by Rama Thiaw.
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When President Abdoulaye Wade wanted to run for office yet again in 2011, a resistance movement formed on the streets. Shortly afterwards, a group of school friends, including rappers Thiat and Kilifeu, set up "Y'en a marre" ("We Are Fed Up"), with filmmaker Rama Thiaw soon coming on board to start documenting events – meetings, campaigns, arrests, concerts, states of exhaustion, trips – from an "insider" perspective. Over several years, a stirring portrait emerged of a youth protest movement to whom independent observers were not the only ones to ascribe the role of "kingmaker" in the last elections. Rama Thiaw shows the rappers and their environment with an intimacy whose cinematographic finesse provides space and context for the thorny conflicts between music and politics, street and state.
- Runtime
- 1h 50m
- Post-credits
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- Language
- Wolof
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- Released
- 17 February 2016
- Country
- Senegal
- Written by
- Rama Thiaw
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The Revolution Won't Be Televised runs 110 minutes (1h 50m).
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The Revolution Won't Be Televised isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 17 February 2016. (Checked 10 November 2026.)
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Who directed The Revolution Won't Be Televised?
The Revolution Won't Be Televised (2016) was directed by Rama Thiaw and stars Khady Sylla, Cyrille Oumar Touré, Karim Sama.