Directing

Safi Faye

Born · 1943

Dakar, Senegal

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.

Known for

7.5

Letter from My Village

1976

10.0

Filming Desire: A Journey Through Women’s Cinema

2000

Sisters of the Screen - African Women in the Cinema

2002

As Kineastas

1986

7.1

Little by Little

1970