Guelwaar is a 1993 French-Senegalese drama film written and directed by Ousmane Sembène.
The burial of a Christian man, a political activist and dissident, by a Muslim family sets off a conflagration of satire and comedy in a deeply religious community.
The film, said to be based on a true story, is a biting drama about North-South power relations and socio-economic development, inter-religious communal tensions, African religion and African pride,[2] with a nod to Thomas Sankara and pan-Africanism.
In a scene in the film, the lead actor who plays Guelwaar, Abou Camara, recites a verse about African pride and dignity from Kocc Barma Fall, the 17th-century Senegambian philosopher and lamane.
It received an American home video release with independent distributor New Yorker Films that same year,[4] though it has been out of print since the company shut down in 2018.