BANEL & ADAMA

Ramata-Toulaye Sy
Senegal, France, Mali 2023, 87 minutes, color
Feature flm
Pulaar with English subtitles

SATURDAY 26. OCTOBER 2024 | 20H

MOVIE 2 | MOVIEMENTO

Banel and Adama are fiercely in love. The young married couple lives in a remote village in northern Senegal. For them, nothing else exists. Yet their perfect everlasting love is on a collision course with their community’s customs. Because in this world, there is no room for passion, let alone chaos. 

Ramata-Toulaye SY is french-senegalese and was born and raised in the Paris region. She joined La fémis in 2011 in the Screenwriting department, from which she graduated in 2015. Ramata-Toulaye worked, among others, as a screenwriter on the film ‘Sibel’ (2018) by C. Zencirci and G. Giovanetti as well as on Our Lady of the Nile’ (2019) by A. Rahimi. In 2020, Ramata-Toulaye directed her first short film, ‘Astel’, selected in more than 80 festivals and pre-selected for the 2023 César Awards. Banel & Adama’ is her first feature film.

Filmstill © Banel & Adama