A Senegalese Filmmaker Who “Wanted to Tell the Most Beautiful and Greatest African Love Story”
A touching moment between two characters from the film “Banel & Adama,” highlighting African storytelling and romance.
Nearly a decade ago, when Ramata-Toulaye Sy sat down to write her graduation script at the end of a screenwriting degree, her goal was simple. “When I was growing up a lot of African stories were about misery, poverty, war. I wanted to say: we can have African stories about people falling in love… Most importantly, I wanted to write the story of how Juliet became Lady Macbeth.” It’s a description that nails the film she’s now directed, based on that script, Banel & Adama. A subversive feminist romance set in Senegal, it was the only film by a first-time director in the main competition at Cannes last year.
SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN