Safi Faye

WriterActorDirector Nov 22 (died age 79) Dakar, Senegal 1970–2023 (53 year career)

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Biography

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

Film

Little by Little

7.2 1970

Film

Mossane

Director

Film

Come and Work

Director

Film

Letter from My Village

Villager (voice)

Film

I, Your Mother

Screenplay

Film

Sisters of the Screen - African Women in the Cinema

Self

Film

Filming Desire: A Journey Through Women’s Cinema

Self

Film

Tesito

Director

Filmography

Acting (8)

Movies (8)

Leçon de cinéma avec Safi Faye

2009

Sisters of the Screen - African Women in the Cinema

2002

as Self

Filming Desire: A Journey Through Women’s Cinema

2000

as Self

Ouaga

1988

As Kineastas

1986

Letter from My Village

as Villager (voice)

La passante

Little by Little

Crew (10)

Movies (10)

I, Your Mother

2023

Screenplay

Mossane

1996

Director

6.6

Tesito

1989

Director

Ambassades Nourricières

1984

Director

Selbe: One Among Many

1983

Director

Souls in the Sun

1981

Director

Come and Work

1979

Director

5.2

Letter from My Village

1976

Director

8.0

La passante

1972

Director

Elsie Haas, Femme Peintre, Cinéaste d'Haïti

Director