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- With the dancers from the Tam-tam class at the École des Sables
ATCHA ATCHA
A film by Mamadou Dia
This is the last year of master’s degree at the prestigious dance school "Ecole des Sables", founded in Senegal and directed by choreographer and dancer Germaine Acogny, 80 years old. Germaine Acogny received a Golden Lion for her entire career at the 2021 Venice Biennale. Its students from all over Africa give themselves "body and soul" to obtain their diploma, but also the blessing of "the mother of modern African dance" or "mother germaine".
- Genre: Documentary
- Duration: 60 minutes
- Production Year: 2026
- Color – Black and White: Color
- Languages: French, English
- Filming country: Senegal
- Co-produced by: Les Films du Bilboquet, Joyedidi, Maayo
- Image: Mamadou Dia
- Editing: Mélanie Braux
- Editing collaboration: Dimitri Ouedraogo
- Sound Editing: Thomas Fourel
- Sound: Baye Darou Sané
- Calibration: Yannig Willmann
- Mixing: Thomas Fourel
partenership
- Vià93
- Ministry of Culture
- FinalCut Venice 2025
- FOPICA
- OIF