Banel & Adama (Ramata-Toulaye Sy, 2023) | 2025 French Film Festival
Schedule
Fri, 07 Feb, 2025 at 07:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
Rubenstein Arts Center at Duke University | Durham, NC
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2025 French Film Festival presents:BANEL & ADAMA
(Ramata-Toulaye Sy, 2023, 87 min, France/Senegal, Mali, Pulaar w/English subtitles, DCP)
In a rural village in Senegal, Banel (Khady Mane) is happily married to Adama (Mamadou Diallo), the younger brother of her deceased first husband. Though their love is passionate, the relationship is tested by pressures from the community, which expects Banel to assume traditionally feminine domestic responsibilities, while her husband is meant to inherit the role of village chief from his late brother. Both young adults resist the mandate to fill these assigned duties, incurring disapproval from those around them—and possibly triggering supernatural repercussions. In her Palme d’Or nominated feature debut, Senegalese-French writer-director Ramata-Toulaye Sy conjures lyrical imagery reminiscent of Terrence Malick’s "Days of Heaven," placing two memorable young lovers against a landscape as beautiful as it is inscrutable.
“A dreamlike debut…a lyrical, languid fable.” – Jessica Kiang, Variety
“A promising debut for Sy, who combines an eye for arrestingly apocalyptic images…with skillful work with her non-professional cast…[including] a remarkable performance from [lead actress Khady] Mane, who conveys the mutinous, deluded anger in a young woman who would bend the world around her to her will if she could.” – Wendy Ide, Screen Daily
French Film Festival sponsored by the Center for French and Francophone Studies and made possible by the Albertine Cinemathèque, a program of FACE Foundation and Villa Albertine; Office of the Dean of Arts & Sciences, Romance Studies, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, and Duke Cinematic Arts.
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Event URL: https://cinematicarts.duke.edu/screensociety/screenings/banel-adama-ramata-toulaye-sy-2023-2025-french-film-festival
Series Poster: https://cinematicarts.duke.edu/sites/cinematicarts.duke.edu/files/documents/2025FrenchFilmFestival--poster.pdf
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Where is it happening?
Rubenstein Arts Center at Duke University, 2022 Campus Dr, Durham, NC 27708-9940, United States,Durham, North CarolinaEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
