African Film Archive

Mossane

1996 — Safi Faye — Senegal

feature · drama · video-wave

Shot over two years in the Sereer village of Mbissel, Safi Faye's fictional feature follows a fourteen year old girl promised in marriage to a wealthy man while she loves another, and screened in Un Certain Regard at Cannes 1996.

Fun fact: Unlike Faye's earlier documentary-style work, Mossane marked her turn to purely fictional storytelling after training as an ethnologist under Jean Rouch.

Notes: Cinematography by Jurgen Jurges.

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Poster source: Wikipedia