Safi Faye

Safi Faye was born on 22 November 1943, in Dakar or in Fad'jal depending on the sources, into a Serer family. Trained at the teacher training college in Rufisque, a schoolteacher, she met Jean Rouch in 1966 and acted in one of his films, then studied ethnology in Paris, where she defended a doctorate in 1979, and cinema at the Louis-Lumière school. She made a dozen films, including several ethnographic documentaries, and her last feature film won a prize at Cannes. She died in Paris on 22 February 2023.

In the catalogue 1

• Feature filmLetter from My VillageKaddu BeykatSafi Faye · 1975Cinema