2 African Films Competing in Cannes Film Festival
This year’s 76th edition of the Cannes Film Festival (16-27 May) kicks off today with two African filmmakers among those in the running for the Palme d’Or with another four competing in the Un Certain Regard section. French-Senegalese writer director, Ramata-Toulaye Sy is in the official competition with her first feature film, Banel e Adama. […]
This year’s 76th edition of the Cannes Film Festival (16-27 May) kicks off today with two African filmmakers among those in the running for the Palme d’Or with another four competing in the Un Certain Regard section.
French-Senegalese writer director, Ramata-Toulaye Sy is in the official competition with her first feature film, Banel e Adama. Set in Senegal, the film is conceived as an African adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet with Khady Mane playing Banel, the strong female lead and actor Mamadou Diallo incarnating Banel’s husband of a year, Adama.
The other female African writer director selected in Cannes’ official competition is Kaouther Ben Hania for her documentary film Four Daughters. The Tunisian filmmaker creatively recounts through her subjects’ memories and the help of a couple fill in actresses, the story of Olfa’s daughters with two of them having become radicalised and joining the Islamic State (IS) as young teenagers.
