Selected at the last Cannes festival and awarded the Student Jury Prize and the Pass Culture Jury Prize at the International Festival ” New Waves » from Biarritz, the film « Banel and Adama by Franco-Senegalese director Ramata-Toulaye Sy is released this Wednesday in French cinemas. A magnificent intense and total love story, which questions through this amorous passion, the societal questions of female emancipation and patriarchy.
For this first show of the season, Jean-François Cadet receives one of the rising figures of African cinema. His first feature film had the honors of the official competition of the last Cannes festival. He was then rewarded with two prizes in Biarritz.
No doubt he will conquer the hearts of spectators from this Wednesday. The Franco-Senegalese screenwriter and director Ramata-Toulaye Sy come and introduce us Banel and Adama, a film shot in the Pulaar language in the Fouta-Toro region, in the north of Senegal.
The story of a passionate love confronted with the weight of fate and traditions. A story nourished by magical realism and poetry.
Reporting : Marjorie Bertin went to the festival there summer monsoonat the Abbaye des Prémontrés in Pont à Mousson, in Meurthe et Moselle, to meet the Cameroonian playwright Edouard Elvis Bvouma, winner of the RFI Theater Prize 2017, who presents his creation ” Each for one, two for all »