Banel & Adama
12A
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“I am so interested in the conflicting themes of feminism, tradition, progression and responsibility. It is this kind of innovative and fresh filmmaking I am most excited to present as part of Cinema Africa!”
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Banel and Adama are fiercely in love. The young couple live in a remote village in northern Senegal and for them, nothing else in the world exists. However, their perfect everlasting love seems on a collision course with their family’s traditions as drought strikes their community. Award-winning filmmaker Ramata-Toulaye Sy’s breathtaking debut feature follows the fated lovers in their quest to carve a life for themselves beyond the expectations of others.
French-Senegalese Ramata-Toulaye Sy was born and raised in the Paris region. She joined La Fémis in 2011 in the Screenwriting department, from which she graduated in 2015. Ramata-Toulaye worked, among others, as a screenwriter on the film Sibel (2018) by C. Zencirci and G. Giovanetti as well as Our Lady of the Nile (2019) by A. Rahimi. In 2020, Ramata-Toulaye directed her first short film, Astel, selected in more than 80 festivals and pre-selected for the 2023 César Awards. Banel & Adama is her first feature film.
This film was co-curated with our partner, Maona Art.
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