A team of friends recover heavy metal drums used to transport tar. After having cleaned out the drums with intense heat, they work industriously to make metal plates which, when cut and assembled, will finally become impressive trunks.
In Senegal, artisanal fishing, which feeds 90% of the coastal population, is threatened, as on many other African coasts, by industrial fishing. Artisanal fishermen from Kayar, Hann and Soumbédioune testify to their difficulties, their aspirations, their demands.
Dial Diali slightly lifts the veil behind which Senegalese women secretly hide traditional artifices (small loincloths, pearl belts, henna and incense) that highlight their charm and eroticism, to accentuate their power of seduction on men. In Africa, a therapeutic and symbolic aspect of things is often hidden behind aesthetics. Olaf Diali pays tribute to the beauty, grace, finesse and intelligence of African women.
In Africa, small jobs survive as resistance to the invasion of consumer goods. In compiling five shorts directed by the Senegalese documentary filmmaker, the film details the stages of making handicrafts from garbage dumped at landfills.
Every morning, Amadou catches small fishes in the lake near Dakar. He puts them into thrown-away bottles to make aquariums.
