Hyenas
1992 / 110 minutes /
Director: Djibril Diop Mambéty
CAST: MANSOUR DIOUF, AMI DIAKHATE, MAHOUREDIA GUEYE, OMAR BA, ISSA RAMAGELISSA SAMB, FALY GUEYE, KAORU EGUSHI, DJIBRIL DIOP MAMBÉTY
NEW 2K RESTORATION
One of the treasures of African cinema, Senegalese master Djibril Diop Mambéty’s long-delayed follow-up to his canonical Touki Bouki is a hallucinatory comic adaptation of Swiss avant-garde writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s play The Visit, which in Mambéty’s imagining follows a now-rich woman returning to her poor desert hometown to propose a deal to the populace: her fortune, in exchange for the death of the man who years earlier abandoned her and left her with his child. Per its title, Hyenas is a film of sinister, mocking laughter, and a biting satire of a contemporary Senegal whose post-colonial dreams are faced with erosion by western materialism.
Restored in 2018 by Thelma Film AG with the support of Cinémathèque Suisse, at Éclair Cinema, from the original negative.
A Metrograph Pictures release.
Previous Bookings
BAMPFA African Film Festival, Berkeley, CA
Il Cinema Ritrovato On Tour, Providence, RI
Wisconsin Film Festival, Madison, WI
Metrograph, New York, NY
Alamo Drafthouse, Brooklyn, NY
Time & Space Limited, Hudson, NY
The Royal Cinema, Toronto, ON
Alamo Drafthouse, San Francisco, CA
The Roxie, San Francisco, CA
Guild Cinema, Albuquerque, NM
Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, OK
Oriental Theatre, Milwaukee, WI
Ragtag Cinema, Columbia, MO
AFI Silver Theatre, Silver Spring, MD
Austin Film Society, Austin, TX
The Cinematheque, Vancouver, BC
International House, Philadelphia, PA
Nolan Park, Governors Island, New York, NY
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Maysles Documentary Center, New York, NY
Northwest Film Center, Portland, OR
Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY
SIFF Film Center, Seattle, WA
Winnipeg Film Group, Winnipeg, MB
Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
Webster Film Series, Saint Louis, MO
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Cornell Cinema, Ithaca, NY
Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge, MA
International Film Series, Boulder, CO
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
Craft House, Staten Island, NY
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
IndieMemphis, Memphis, TN
Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago, IL
Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY
Cinema Detroit, Detroit, MI
Amherst Cinema, Amherst, MA
FilmBar, Phoenix, AZ
Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM
Array 360, Los Angeles, CA
Black Film Center/Archive, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Suns Cinema, Washington, D.C.
Parkway Theatre, Baltimore, MD