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At this year’s New York African Film Festival, a screening of director Moussa Touré’s 1998 sophomore film, Tgv, sheds new light on the Senegalese filmmaker’s more recent work. Tgv tells the story of Rambo (Makena Diop), a bus driver who runs an intercity line between Dakar and Conakry, Guinea. He decides to embark on the risky trip between the two countries with a quirky group of passengers, despite warnings from the military that rebels have taken over the border and pose a huge threat to the determined band of travelers. The motives for each passenger’s migration from Senegal gradually emerge as the colorful, rickety bus drives through an often barren but beautifully shot landscape....