Safi Faye (November 22, 1943 – February 22, 2023) was a Senegalese film director and ethnologist. She was the first Sub-Saharan African woman to direct a ...
Safi Faye
Senegalese film director and ethnologist
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Safi Faye was a Senegalese film director and ethnologist. She was the first Sub-Saharan African woman to direct a commercially distributed feature film, Kaddu Beykat, which was released in 1975. She has directed several documentary and fiction... Wikipedia
Born: November 22, 1943, Dakar, Senegal
Died: February 22, 2023 (age 79 years), Paris, France
Award: Un Certain Regard
Notable work: Kaddu Beykat, Mossane
Movies
Safi Faye was born on 22 November 1943 in Dakar, Senegal. She was a director and writer, known for Mossane (1996), Fad'jal (1979) and Letter from My Village ...
It is a kind of beauty which is inaccessible to human beings.” The film follows Mossane, a beautiful young girl from a rural village who must decide between ...
Biography. Senegal. Safi Faye was born in Dakar, Senegal, in 1943. She was a school teacher for six years before beginning her career in film, as an actress in ...
Feb 24, 2023 · Safi Faye (1943-2023) was the first Senegalese woman filmmaker and the first African woman to make a commercially successful feature film, ...
Safi Faye (1943-2023) was a Senegalese film director. She was the first Sub-Saharan African woman to direct a commercially distributed feature film, ...
Jan 25, 2021 · From 1979 to 1980, Faye studied video production in Berlin and was a guest lecturer at the Free University of Berlin. She received a further ...
Nov 22, 2023 · She supported herself by working as a model, an actor and in film sound effects. In 1979, she received a PhD in ethnology from the University of ...
Feb 27, 2023 · A giant of Senegalese and World cinema has sadly left us. Safi Faye, Fadial's daughter, passed away on the night of 22 February 2023. The first ...
Safi Faye wanted to tell a more nuanced story of African life, one that illuminated the agency and resilience of African people living under systems of colonial ...