Tableau Ferraille

The story of an idealistic young politician's rise and fall in a small town, TABLEAU FERRAILLE ("scrap heap") paints a picture of a corrupt post-colonial elite.

TABLEAU FERRAILLE offers an intimate view of how modernization, at least as practiced in today's Africa, corrodes traditional communities and retards grassroots development. Like such past Senegalese masterpieces as Ousmane Sembene's Xala and Djibril Diop Mambety's Hyenas, it deplores a corrupt post-colonial elite's exploitation of the promise of African independence.

Official Selection at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. Official Selection at the San Francisco International Film Festival.

"Director Moussa Sene Absa's light often humorous approach, plus vibrant production values and a soundtrack to delight African music lovers, makes it a likely hit." - Variety

"The find of the festival... A full-bodied study of ambition and corruption that doesn't seek to simplify matters." - Chicago Tribune