RAW Material Company cordially invites you to the screening of the film "Retour aux sources" by Mamo Hitz this Friday October 1, 2021 at 7:30 pm.
This screening will be followed by a discussion with Adja Gnacko, Mamo Hitz, Selly Raby Kane, Mawo Sidibé and Cheikha Sigil, moderated by Aboubacar Demba Cissokho.

Committed director and driving personality in the Dakar cultural milieu, Mamo Hitz has always been active in art and creation. It is therefore very natural that he follows the audiovisual training offered by SUP’INFO in Dakar. Very early on, he put his skills at the service of the promotion of the arts.

First via the Street Lourd site which compiles interviews and teasers of hip-hop artists, then by developing its own audiovisual webzine: "le Vrai Mag". Designed as a space for discovery and encounter, this platform broadcasts a 10-minute report every week devoted to an artist, a personality or an event. Like Street Lourd, Vrai Mag aims to help disseminate the cultural and artistic content from Africa and its diaspora. The magazine aims to be generalist and international. Rich in these experiences Mamo Hitz is today considered one of the most prolific Senegalese directors of his generation. In 2018 he signed the documentary From shore to shore, and today it is with Return to the sources that he is reinvesting the cultural scene.

From shore to shore questions the process of emigration and return of the Senegalese diaspora. It is during intimate individual interviews that journalist Victoria Siamlo explores with care and authenticity the stakes of such an approach. What a vast subject that of expatriation!

Indeed, it refers as much to the fantasies of travel, to the real difficulties of emigration as to the challenges of returning. After examining the journey from the perspective of departure and belonging in his documentary From shore to shore, Mamo Hitz is now interested in the opposite path, that of returning to one's roots. The director’s favorite theme, this documentary focuses on the migratory process and the hopes and fears it nurtures, the challenges it presents and its advantages. Once again, Mamo Hitz delicately and discreetly interferes in singular life paths to draw the quintessence of a teaching of general utility.