Safi Faye Movies

An African travels to Paris to learn about the construction of tall buildings, but is soon taken up with the oddities of French life.

The film consists largely of a series of interviews with female filmmakers from several different countries and filmmaking eras. Some, such as...

Based on interviews with 15 women, including directors, producers and film actresses, a journey around the world is made, seeing the wars waged by...

Ngor is a young man living in a Senegalese village who wishes to marry Coumba. Ongoing drought in the village has affected its crop of groundnuts and...

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.

A beautiful 14-year-old girl has just reached marriageable age in a village in Senegal. She has many suitors; however, she is in love a poor student...

This revealing documentary offers a rare view of daily life in West Africa. Shot in Senegal, Selbe focuses on the social role and economic...

In 1989, this film was part of the PAMEZ project in Senegal which was part of the sea program of the CCFD, Catholic Committee against Hunger and for...

Exploring the extraordinary contributions of women filmmakers from Africa and the diaspora, Beti Ellerson’s engaging debut intersperses...

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...

The story of a Serer village in the groundnut basin of Senegal. Using the words of their ancestors passed on by oral folklore, the villagers trace...

“Sooner or later, I’ll return to where my other self is.” The everyday experiences of a Senegalese student in West Berlin are...