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Banel and Adama’s love challenges traditional customs. When it fails to rain as expected, the star-crossed lovers learn that where they live, there is no room for passion, let alone chaos.
Banel and Adama are fiercely in love. The young married couple lives in a remote village in northern Senegal. For them, nothing else exists. Yet their perfect everlasting love is on a collision course with their community’s customs. Because in this world, there is no room for passion, let alone chaos.

Credits

Director
Ramata-Toulaye Sy
Screenwriter
Ramata-Toulaye Sy
Producer
Eric Névé & Maud Leclair-Névé (La Chauve-Souris), Margaux Juvénal (Take Shelter), Souleymane Kébé (Astou Production), Oumar Gabar Sy (Astou Films), Andrey S. Diarra (DS Productions)
Production Company
La Chauve-Souris, Take Shelter, Astou Production, Astou Films, DS Productions
Cast
Khady Mane (Banel), Mamadou Diallo (Adama)

About the Director

Ramata-Toulaye Sy
French-Senegalese Ramata-Toulaye Sy, born and raised in the Paris region, embarked on her cinematic journey at La Fémis, enrolling in the Screenwriting department in 2011 and graduating in 2015. Throughout her career, she has contributed as a screenwriter to notable films such as ‘Sibel’ (2018) by Çağla Zencirci and Guillaume Giovanetti, and ‘Our Lady of the Nile’ (2019) by Atiq Rahimi. In 2020, R
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