Banel & Adama
Film details
| Film Title | Banel & Adama |
|---|---|
| Suitability | |
| Genre | |
| Length | 87mins |
| Year | 2023 |
| Country | France, Mali, Senegal |
| Director | Ramata-Toulaye Sy |
| Actors | Khady Mane, Mamadou Diallo, Binta Racine Sy, Moussa Sow, Ndiabel Diallo, Oumar Samba Dia, Amadou Ndiaye |
| Language | Fulah |
| AKA | Panneau & Adama |
| Showings |
Banel and Adama are fiercely in love. The young married couple lives in a remote village in northern Senegal. For them, nothing else exists. Yet their perfect everlasting love is on a collision course with their community’s customs. Because in this world, there is no room for passion, let alone chaos.
A striking debut that puts Sy on the map as a purveyor of deceptively gorgeous visions that show flimsy desires at the mercy of the social, and literal, weather.
★★★★
Sy’s film is a curious little fable, not quite fully formed in its final stages… But it’s a striking debut nonetheless, especially as it revolves, with graceful poetry around the inner experiences of such a curious, unknowable woman.
★★★
