Directing · b. 1943 · Dakar, Senegal

Safi Faye

Biography

Safi Faye was a Senegalese film director and ethnologist. 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.

Directed

I, Your Mother 2023 Mossane 1996 Tesito 1989 Ambassades Nourricières 1984 Selbe: One Among Many 1983 Souls in the Sun 1981 Come and Work 1979 Letter from My Village 1976 La passante 1972

Acting

Leçon de cinéma avec Safi Faye 2009 Sisters of the Screen - African Women in the Cinema Self 2002 Filming Desire: A Journey Through Women’s Cinema Self 2000 Ouaga 1988 As Kineastas 1986 Little by Little 1970

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