Director Ramata-Toulaye Sy poses for portrait photographs for the film 'Banel & Adama' at the 76th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Saturday, May 20, 2023. top-rung competition lineup are well-known directors who have been around for decades. One dramatic exception this year is Ramata-Toulaye Sy, a French-Senegalese filmmaker whose first film, “Banel & Adama,” landed among the 21 films competing for the Palme d'Or.
“I’m a filmmaker and I really wish we stopped being counted as women, as Black or Arab or Asian,” said Sy. While Banel and Adama slowly work to sweep away the sand, their yearning to live on their own causes angst in the village, especially when a draught arrives that some take as a curse for their independence. Though often opaque, the film stays largely with the psychology of Banel, whose single-mindedness grows increasingly dark.
“The love story was a pretext for to deal with myth,” she says. “I wanted to have this kind of mythological female character that you find in Greek tragedy."
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