After having offended the village traditions, Kodou goes mad. His family tries to have him treated in a Western-style psychiatric hospital, to no end. So they decide to take him to a traditional exorcist... starring Fatou Fall, Madeleine Diallo, El Hadji Seck, Mohamed Latyr Seck, Daouda Seck, Jacques Zwingelstein a film by Ababacar SAMB Makharam Senegal, 1971, Fiction, 89 mins, drama, Wolof original version subtitled in French/English. PRINCIPAL CAST Fatou FALL Madeleine DIALLO El Hadji SECK Mohamed Latyr SECK Daouda SECK Jacques ZWINGELSTEIN Dieynaba NIANG Ndèye GUÉYE Réalisateur / Director: Ababacar SAMB Makharam Scénaristes / Screenwriters: Annette MBAYE d'ERNEVILLE & Ababacar Samb-Makharam Directeur Photo / Cinematographer: Baïdy SOW Son/Sound: Jacques AUGER Montage / Editing: Claire PIGNERO PRODUCTION Baobab Films (Dakar) DISTRIBUTION Les Ateliers de l'Arche (Dakar) FESTIVALS / AWARDS / SCREENINGS * Selection - ÉCRANS D'AFRIQUE: les films de l'année /// 12th Black Movie - Festival de films des autres mondes | GENEVA, Switzerland | 15 >24 March 02 | www.blackmovie.ch (GENEVA, Switzerland, 2002) * Selection - Carte blanche au Festival Black Movie /// 14th Black Movie - Festival de films des autres mondes | GENEVA, Switzerland | From 27 Feb to 7 March 04 | www.blackmovie.ch (GENEVA, Switzerland, 2004) * Selection /// Cinéma de Nuit (1st session) (restaurant le Bideew, Jardins de l'Institut français L. S. Senghor) | Screening: "Ainsi soit-il" by Joseph Ramaka Gaï | "Kodou" by Ababacar Makharam Samb | "Mon beau sourire" by Angèle Diabang Brener | On 04/08/2007, 22h30 (Dakar, Senegal, 2007) * Selection - "La Folie de la séduction - The madness of seduction" /// Cinéma de Nuit (11th session) (restaurant le Bideew, Jardins de l'Institut français L. S. Senghor) | Screening: DIAL- DIALI by Ousmane William Mbaye & KODOU by Ababacar Samb Makharam | On 16 Feb 2008, 22h30 (Dakar, Senegal, 2008) * Selection /// Africamania (French Cinémathèque) | 16/01/2008 - 17/03/2008 (Paris, France, 2008) * Selection /// Etoiles d'Afrique : Festival du film africain francophone en Ile de France | 10/12/2009 - 13/12/2009 (France, 2009) * Selection /// Le Mois de l'Afrique (en Guadeloupe) | 07/02/2014 - 01/03/2014 (Guadeloupe, 2014) * Selection - Tribute to "Ababacar Samb Cinéma" /// Gorée Cinéma & Saint-Louis Cinéma | Screenings: "Et la neige n'était plus" (Maison Gorée Cinéma, Goree Island - 15h30 & Shore of Bou El Mogdad at Saint-Louis - 20h) & "Kodou" (Grand'Plage Cinéma, Goree Island - 20h30 & Shore of Bou El Mogdad boat at Saint-Louis - 20h30) & "Jom" (Grand'Plage Cinéma, Goree Island - 10PM) + Live Concert: El Hadj Ndiaye (Grand'Plage Cinéma, Goree Island - 7PM30) | On 7 Oct 2017 (Goree Island & Saint-Louis, Senegal, 2017)