A musical road movie, Youssou N’Dour: Return to Gorée follows Senegalese singer Youssou N'Dour's historical journey tracing the trail left by enslaved Africans and the jazz music they created. Youssou N'Dour's challenge is to bring back to Africa a jazz repertoire of his own songs to perform a concert in Gorée, the island that today symbolizes the slave trade and stands to honor its victims.

From Atlanta to New Orleans with stops in New York to Bordeaux and Luxembourg, the songs are transformed, immersed in jazz and gospel. Transcending cultural divisions and rehearsing with of some of the world's most exceptional musicians, Youssou N'Dour is preparing to return to Africa for the final concert...

Features internationally celebrated musicians Youssou N'Dour, Moncef Genoud, and Idris Muhammad, Goree historian Boubacar Joseph Ndiaye and celebrated writer and poet Amiri Baraca.

" Conversations full of memorable words and what can only be called 'genuineness' push Youssou N'Dour: Return to Gorée into the realm of unforgettable filmmaking." ~ Jonathan Curiel, San Francisco Chronicle

"Trace[s] influences and celebrate[s] connections with tunes to make you tap and sway." ~ Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times

Directed by Pierre-Yves Borgeaud, 2008, Senegal/Swiss/France, 108min, musical documentary in English and French w/ English subtitles