Safi Faye
- Directing
- November 22, 1943 · Dakar, Senegal
- February 22, 2023
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
Filmography
- I, Your Mother · Screenplay, Director
- Leçon de cinéma avec Safi Faye
- Sisters of the Screen - African Women in the Cinema · Self
- Filming Desire: A Journey Through Women’s Cinema · Self
- Mossane · Director, Writer
- Tesito · Director
- Ouaga
- As Kineastas
- Ambassades Nourricières · Director, Writer
- Selbe: One Among Many · Director
- Souls in the Sun · Director
- Come and Work · Director, Writer
- Letter from My Village · Villager (Voice), Director
- La passante · Writer, Director
- Little by Little
- Elsie Haas, Femme Peintre, Cinéaste d'Haïti · Director