Le Cri de La Mer (The Cry of The Sea)

synopsis

The Cry of the Sea is about the struggle of a mother, Yaye Bayam Diouf, who lost her only son in a dugout (or boat) for the Canary Islands. Today, all her life in Thiaroye sur Mer is devoted to fighting against clandestine immigration. The Cry of the Sea is also a heartfelt cry, a singular point of view of a scourge that has claimed the lives of more than 3000 young Senegalese.

about the director

Aïcha Thiam was born in 1979 in Antwerp, the daughter of a Senegalese father and Malian mother. She grew up between Belgium, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Senegal and Mali. Thiam ended her legal studies to study audiovisual professions at the Media Center of Dakar. She directed her first feature film, La Rue des Sœurs Noires, in 2014. Coproduced by Survivance and DS Productions, it examines the history of the diamond trade in Antwerp as well as African migration. In 2019, Thiam became a member of the official jury of the sixth Documentary Film Festival of Saint-Louis, Senegal. She lives and works in Dakar.