Direction: Safi Faye

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Safi Faye. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


La passante (S)

1972 · Movie · 10 min. · Senegal

Direction Safi Faye

Cast Safi Faye

Plot As a young African woman arrives in Paris and walks past two men, one French and one African, the men admire her beauty and fantasize. The European man dreams of...

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Selbe: One Among Many

1986 · Documentary · 30 min. · Senegal

Direction Safi Faye

Plot Selbe focuses on the social role and economic responsibility of women in African society. Because men often leave their communities to earn money in the city, women are left with...

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Souls in the Sun

1981 · Documentary · 27 min. · France

Direction Safi Faye

Plot Souls in the Sun takes an honest look at some victims of the world’s neglect - a few individuals among the teeming masses of poor people.

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Fad'jal

1979 · Documentary · 108 min. · Senegal

Direction Safi Faye

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Mossane

1996 · Movie · 105 min. · Senegal

Direction Safi Faye

Cast Magou Seck · Isseu Niang · Moustapha Yade · Abou Camara

Plot Mossane is a beautiful 14-year-old girl who has just reached marriageable age in a village in Senegal. She has many suitors, including a simple-minded farmer's son who plans to drag...

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Man Sa Yay

1980 · Documentary · 59 min. · Senegal

Direction Safi Faye

Cast Yvonne Nafi · Moussa Sarr · Yay Sokhna

Plot The everyday experiences of a Senegalese student in West Berlin are marked by a sense of uneasiness in Europe and his family's expectations in the form of a constant stream...

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Letter from My Village

1976 · Movie · 90 min. · Senegal

Direction Safi Faye

Cast Assane Faye · Maguette Gueye

Plot A fictional story, which follows the efforts of a boy from outside an Senegalese village arriving and trying to find work, wraps this simple tale in an envelope rich in...

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