Senegal,France

Ramata-Toulaye Sy is a French-Senegalese film director and screenwriter. She was born in Bezons, Paris to Senegalese parents. She studied at La Fémis in Paris, graduating in 2015. She lived in Dakar, Senegal for several years after graduation. Sy's 2021 short film Astel 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.

Sy was a cowriter of the feature films Sibel and Our Lady of the Nile (Notre-Dame-du-Nil) , before making Astel as her first directorial project.

Her feature debut, Banel & Adama, entered production in 2022, premiered at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival and was also screened at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival. The film received praise from critics who described it as an expressive debut from a promising director. Biography Source

Filmography

Banel & Adama (2023)