BANEL & ADAMA

France, Senegal, Mali
2023

Director: Ramata-Toulaye SY

Language: Pulaar with English subtitles

North of Senegal, small remote village, today. Banel and Adama are fiercely in love. Long- ing for a home of their own, they have decided to live apart from their families and that Adama won’t accept his blood duty as future chief. When Adama informs the village council of his intention, the whole community is disrupted. The rain that’s supposed to come doesn’t come. Banel and Adama will learn that where they live, there is no room for passions, let alone chaos.

Screenings

29 July | 19:00 | Suncoast 1
30 July | 19:30 | Suncoast 6
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Credits

Director

Ramata-Toulaye SY

Producer

La Chauve-Souris, Take Shelter

Screenplay

Ramata-Toulaye SY

Cinematography

Amine Berrada

Cast

Khady Mane, Mamadou Diallo, Binta Root Sy, Moussa Sow, Ndiabel Diallo, Oumar Samba Dia, Amadou Ndiaye

Runtime

87 min

Ramata-Toulaye SY

Ramata-Toulaye Sy is a French film director and screenwriter. She is most noted for her 2021 short film Astel, which was the winner of the Share Her Journey award at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival,[2] and the SACD Award and a Special Jury Prize at the 2022 Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival.[3] She was a cowriter of the feature films Sibel[4] and Our Lady of the Nile (Notre-Dame-du-Nil),[5] before making Astel as her first directorial project. Her feature debut, Banel & Adama, entered production in 2022,[6] and is slated to premiere at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival.
DIFF 2023

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