Dakar Dream

Dakar Dream (2026)

Year
2026
Director
Alexander "AV" Volberding
Duration
77 min

Dakar, Senegal, is a peninsula at the very tip of West Africa, a city wrapped in surf spots on every side. When one coast goes flat, the other pops off. Nobody here has ever waited for a season. In 1966, Bruce Brown carried The Endless Summer to the reef off Ngor, and the wave has worn the film's name ever since. What that footage never showed was the scene growing up around it. Sixty years later, it runs four generations deep. Dakar's surfers aren't discovering surfing. They've been at it for four generations, and the scene has grown a style of its own, pulled from the color, rhythm, and hustle of Senegalese life. It doesn't look like California. It doesn't look like Australia. It looks like Dakar. The film follows three locals chasing what's next. Unlimited waves, limited resources, and no intention of waiting for permission. We hear them the way their friends do: through their own voice notes, narrating their world in real time.

Cast

Coming SoonFallou Bousso
Coming SoonDéguène Thioune
Coming SoonDame Samb
Coming SoonBaye Seydi
Coming SoonBig PB
Coming SoonSamsedine Thiaw
Coming SoonPape Fodé
Coming SoonMetza Sarr
Coming SoonIsmaila Samb
Coming SoonAdama Samb
Coming SoonAbsa Thioune
Coming SoonBabacar Sene
Coming SoonAminata Diagne
Coming SoonKhady Enue
Coming SoonAwa Seck
Coming SoonAita Diop