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Safi Faye
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Senegalese ethnologist and film director (1943–2023)
Film & TV
Dakar, Senegal
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.
Known for
- Leçon de cinéma avec Safi Faye2009
- Sisters of the Screen - African Women in the Cinema — Self2002
- Filming Desire: A Journey Through Women’s Cinema — Self2000
- Ouaga1988
- As Kineastas1986
- Letter from My Village — Villager (voice)1976
- La passante1972
- Little by Little1970
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Senegal
- Place of birth
- Dakar
- Place of death
- Paris
- Occupation
- anthropologist
- Educated at
- École normale de Rufisque
- Languages spoken
- French
- Notable work
- Kaddu Beykat
- Participant in
- 1996 Cannes Film Festival
- Image
- Safi Faye, 2004 (cropped).jpg
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- date of birth
- 1943-11-22
- start of work period
- 1972-00-00
- name in native language
- Safi Faye
- date of death
- 2023-02-22
- birth name
- Safiyatou Gueth Faye
- end of work period
- 2023-00-00
- Commons category
- Safi Faye
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