DEM DIKK (RETURN TICKET)
Director KARINE BIRGÉ
Countries Belgium
Duration 53 min
Synopsis
In wo “dem dikk” means return ticket. It is also the name of the buses criss-crossing Dakar. From among a group of Dakar youngsters, caught in the trap between casual labour and somehow scraping by, emerges Pape Diop. Pape, who makes it a point of honour not to be one of those “intellectuals”, who refuses to “act white”, who manages to make his way of surviving into an assertion … he who is the “ambassador for all those who never had the chance to leave.” In the course of encounters between Pape and the female director from Europe, the acute inequality is apparent and with it the undertow of a migration policy based on exclusion.
In wo “dem dikk” means return ticket. It is also the name of the buses criss-crossing Dakar. From among a group of Dakar youngsters, caught in the trap between casual labour and somehow scraping by, emerges Pape Diop. Pape, who makes it a point of honour not to be one of those “intellectuals”, who refuses to “act white”, who manages to make his way of surviving into an assertion … he who is the “ambassador for all those who never had the chance to leave.” In the course of encounters between Pape and the female director from Europe, the acute inequality is apparent and with it the undertow of a migration policy based on exclusion.