2023 FESTIVAL FOCUS SAFI FAYE & KHADY SYLLA The 2023 edition of the CINEFEMFEST symposium-festival has a theme: ‘Legacies’ in that it celebrates the work of Senega
THE EMPIRE OF WORDS Rama Salla Dieng The fiction of Senegalese writer and filmmaker Khady Sylla not only used speech to create worlds and ways of being in the world, but used speec
THE SILENT MONOLOGUE Rama Salla Dieng Filmmaker Khady Sylla amplifies the voices of and gives visibility to the domestic workers tending to the homes of Africa’s middle classes.
WHERE THE SPIRITS CONQUER HER Written by Tabara Korka Ndiaye Translation: Ndeye Debo Seck The Senegalese director, Safi Faye’s classic 1996 film, Mossane, is a love tragedy and a
THE LAND DOESN’T LIE Written by Rama Salla Dieng Translation: Ndeye Debo Seck Safi Faye’s 1976 film, ‘A Farmer’s Love Letter,’ exposes the gap between the
TO CREATE OR TO PERISH Written by Tabara Korka Ndiaye Translation: Ndeye Debo Seck The documentary film, Une Fenêtre Ouverte tells the story of the friendship between two wom