MOSSANE
by Safi Faye, Fiction, 105', 1990/96, 35mm, SENEGAL
With Magou Seck, Isseu Niang, Moustapha Yade, Abou Camara, Alioune Konaré, Alpha Diouf.

Mossane is a terribly beautiful teenage girl. The subject of her beauty is on everyone’s lips, causing conflict and discord in this part of the bush where peace should reign. Her parents had promised her since birth to Diogoye, who lives abroad. But Mossane is deeply in love with Fara. She is proud and determined and refuses to give in to her parents.

SAFI FAYE
Safi Faye was born in Dakar (Senegal). Former teacher in Senegal during seven years, she decides, after an outstanding encounter with Jean Rouch in 1966, to come to study cinema at the School Louis Lumière (Paris). At the same time, in order to learn more about Africa, she follows ethnology and anthropology courses of at the Sorbonne. In 1972, she shoots the La Passante and becomes the first African woman filmmaker. She then makes 3 full-length films: Lettre paysanne (1975), Fad'Jal (1979) and Mossane (1990/96), as well as documentaries moved by her interest for the rural world.