
Ramata-Toulaye Sy
Directing
Biography
Ramata-Toulaye Sy (born 14 June, 1986; Bezons) is a Senegalese film director and screenwriter. She is most noted for her 2021 short film Astel, which was the winner of the Share Her Journey Award at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival, and the SACD Award and a Special Jury Prize at the 2022 Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival. Her feature debut, Banel & Adama, entered production in 2022, and is slated to premiere at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival.
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C ce soir, le débat

25-year-old Sibel lives with her father and sister in a secluded village in the mountains of Turkey’s Black Sea region. Sibel is a mute, but she communicates by using the ancestral whistled language of the area.
Sibel

Chaos ensues shortly after a young man in a remote village in northern Senegal refuses to accept his role as the new village chief.
Banel & Adama

Rwanda, 1973. In the prestigious catholic institute 'Notre-Dame du Nil', perched on a hill, young Rwandan girls study to become the elite of the country. In the process of graduating, they share the same dormitory, the same dreams, the same problems of teenage girls. But in every corner of the country as well as in the school there are deep antagonisms that will forever change the destiny of these young girls and the whole country.
Our Lady of the Nile

After his mother develops cancer from dépigmentation, Khalilou fights toxic beauty standards. Disguised as Leila, he enters the "Miss Students" pageant, where light skin reigns, to give dark-skinned girls a chance to shine.
Timpi Tampa

While helping tend her family’s herd of cows in a northern region of Senegal, a 13-year-old girl faces changes that threaten her tight bond with her father in this vividly realized directorial debut by screenwriter and filmmaker Ramata-Toulaye Sy.
Astel
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Dans la cour des grands

Mounir, a cybersecurity expert, sees his life change on his thirtieth birthday. Jealous of his mother's love for his brother, Awa, his deceased twin sister, returns to torment her brother in the hope of remaining in the world of the living with her mother.