Mandabi (French: Le Mandat, "The Money Order") is a 1968 film written and directed by Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembène.

Since most of the Senegalese population at the time did not understand French, Sembène wanted to create cinema for Wolof speakers.

[1] An unemployed Senegalese Muslim, Ibrahima Dieng, lives with his two wives and seven children in Dakar.

His nephew, Abdou, sends him a money order from Paris worth 25,000 francs, which he has saved from working as a street sweeper.

After the film had not been accessible to cinema audiences for years, it was remastered in 4K resolution and presented at the 2019 Lumière Festival in Lyon, France.