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BANEL & ADAMA
BANEL E ADAMA
RAMATA-TOULAYE SY
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BANEL & ADAMA
BANEL E ADAMA
RAMATA-TOULAYE SY
Country
SENEGAL
language
PULAAR
2023 year
87 Minutes

SCHEDULE

03.03.2024 / 10:45 AM/ Audi 10 PVR INOX ORION MALL
06.03.2024 / 12:25 PM/ Audi 6 PVR INOX ORION MALL

Synopsis

Banel and Adama are fiercely in love. The young married couple lives in a remote village in northern Senegal. For them, nothing else exists. Yet their perfect, everlasting love is on a collision course with their community’s customs. Because in this world, there is no room for passion, let alone chaos.

Producer(s) or Production Company: Margaux Juvénal, Maud Leclair-Nevé, Eric Névé
Screenplay: Ramata-Toulaye Sy
Director of Photography: Amine Berrada
Editor: Vincent Tricon
Music: Bachar Mar-Khalifé
Sound: Benjamin Silvestre
Cast: Khady Mane, Mamadou Diallo, Moussa Sow, Binta Racine Sy
Awards - Winner: Melbourne IFF (Bright Horizons Award)
Awards - Nominations | Screened | Official Selection: 96th Academy Awards (Senegal’s official entry for Best International Feature at the Oscars 2024), Cannes FF (Palme d'Or, Golden Camera), Chicago IFF (Gold Hugo - New Directors Competition), Munich FF (CineVision Award - Best Film by an Emerging Director)
Director's Biography
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RAMATA-TOULAYE SY

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 on OUR LADY OF THE NILE (2019) by A. Rahimi. In 2020, Ramata-Toulaye directed her first short film, ASTEL, which was selected at more than 80 festivals and pre-selected for the 2023 César Awards. BANEL & ADAMA is her first feature film.