Senegal and France / 2005 / 75mins / Comedy, Drama / French and Wolof

After an argument with his examiners at one of Senegal’s top universities, Sogui withdraws from his comfortable and legitimate life. He discovers society’s criminal underbelly together with his friend Max as well as Samba, his childhood friend who is leading an unstable and vulnerable existence, earning his living as a street vendor. Bul déconné – Wolof slang for “Don’t be an idiot” - is a collaboration between French filmmaker Marc Picavez and the Senegalese filmmaker Massaër Dieng.

Massaër Dieng

Massaër Dieng was a Senegalese director. A Dess (Diplôme d'études supérieures spécialisées) in Audiovisual and Cinema, it was in 2000, in a hallway at the University of Nantes that Massaër Dieng, that he met a young French student named Marc Picavez. Three years later, Bul Déconné! took shape. In 2005, Massaër Dieng took his first job as chief operator on the short film Neither Seen Nor Known, directed by Julie Rembauville. He passed away in January 2012. He is buried in the city of Touba in Senegal. Learn More

Marc Picavez

Marc Picavez wrote his first screenplay in high school and won the competition Scénarios sur la drogue with the short film C’est presque terrible (2000). While studying anthropology, he began in cinema with the creation of the production company Makiz’Art in 2000 and the realization of a first film, Bul déconné!, completed in 2005. The film premiered in Dakar, Montreal and Ouidah, and is the fruit of a collaboration with Massaër Dieng. Marc developed several solo projects such as France-Brazil, winner of several Festivals, Agosto, which won the CNC Quality Award in 2010 and Le Monde est Apres Nous, which received several festival awards. In 2013, Marc explored installation for the first time with his personal exhibition Seamen's Club produced by the LIFE (Lieu International des Forms Emergentes) in Saint-Nazaire, five monumental and multi-screen video installations dedicated to commercial sailors and the port world. In 2015, Marc finished two new films: the documentary Sea is My Country, which is co-produced with Arte France, and the short film Yaadikoone which has been presented at the Clermont-Ferrand International Film Festival. Learn More