Safi Faye

Directing

1943-11-22

Died: 2023-02-22

Dakar, Senegal

Films

7.6

Avg Rating

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.

Filmography

8 credits

2009Leçon de cinéma avec Safi Faye 2002Sisters of the Screen - African Women in the Cinemaas Self 2000Filming Desire: A Journey Through Women’s Cinemaas Self

As Director

9 films

I, Your Mother

2023

6.6

Mossane

1996

Tesito

1989

No Poster

Ambassades Nourricières

1984

Selbe: One Among Many

1983

Souls in the Sun

1981

5.2

Come and Work

1979

8.0

Letter from My Village

1976

No Poster

La passante

1972