
Edition: First Cut Lab Doha 2024
The Attachment
Senegal, Belgium, France
Production company: Sine Films
World Premiere: Visions du Réel 2025 – International Main Competition
Synopsis
Guinaw Rail, a forgotten neighbourhood on the outskirts of Dakar, is emptying out. Bulldozers are demolishing houses along the route of the ‘Train Express Regional’, the symbol of President Macky Sall’s “Emerging Senegal”. Before it disappears and is transformed entirely, the filmmaker captures his childhood kingdom and his mother, as she recalls a life lived behind the Rails.
CREDITS
Director & Writer: Mamadou Khouma Gueye
Editor: Geoffroy Cernaix
Producers: Aminata Ndao, Rosa Spaliviero, Eugénie Michel Villette
International Sales: Les Films du Bilboquet