Safi Faye
Birthday: 1943-11-22
Place of Birth: Dakar, Senegal
Biography: Safi Faye was a Senegalese film director. Faye directed many feature films, and today is recognized as one of Sub-Saharan Africa’s most prominent directors. Her 1996 film Mossane received the Un certain regard award at Cannes.
Movies
As Kineastas
Based on interviews with 15 women, including directors, producers and film actresses, a journey arou...
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Sisters of the Screen - African Women in the Cinema
Exploring the extraordinary contributions of women filmmakers from Africa and the diaspora, Beti Ell...
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Little by Little
An African travels to Paris to learn about the construction of tall buildings, but is soon taken up ...
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La passante
As a young African woman arrives in Paris and walks past two men, one French and one African, the me...
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Letter from My Village
Ngor is a young man living in a Senegalese village who wishes to marry Coumba. Ongoing drought in th...
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Filming Desire: A Journey Through Women’s Cinema
The film consists largely of a series of interviews with female filmmakers from several different co...
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