Trailer
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. Official Selection of 2023 Cannes Film Festival.
Ramata-Toulaye Sy
French-senegalese Ramata-Toulaye Sy was born and raised in the Paris region. She joined La fémis in 2011, from which she graduated in 2015. Ramata-Toulaye worked, among others, as a screenwriter on the film Sibel (2018) by Çağla Zencirci and Guillaume Giovanetti as well as on Our Lady of the Nile (2019) by Atiq Rahimi. In 2020, Ramata-Toulaye directed her first short film, Astel, selected in more than 80 festivals. Banel & Adama is her first feature film.
