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Kaddu Beykat (Serer: "Voice of the Peasant"; also known as Lettre paysanne or Letter from My Village) is a 1975 Senegalese film directed by Safi Faye. It was the first feature film made by a Black African woman to be commercially distributed and brought international recognition for its director.
Oct 20, 1976 · Letter from My Village: Directed by Safi Faye. With Assane Faye, Maguette Gueye, Safi Faye. Ngor is a young man living in a Senegalese village who wishes to marry Columba. Ongoing drought in the village has affected its crop of groundnuts and as a result, Ngor cannot afford the bride price for Columba.
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- Documentary, Drama
- Safi Faye
- 1976-10-20
The first commercially-distributed feature by a sub-Saharan African woman, Safi Faye’s KADDU BEYKAT hails from Senegal, a small West African nation that, just a few years earlier, had introduced the world to the cinema of Sembène and Mambéty.
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- Safi Faye
Originally banned in Senegal, “Kaddu Beykat” is an emotive and visual love letter. Between images of the birds chirping, a changing enviornmental and economic climate, and the coming urbanization, Safi Faye captures the the heartbeat of her village’s people. Director: Safi Faye.
Shot in three weeks during a rainy season with a crew of three, Letter from My Village was Safi Faye’s first feature-length film. In a sparing, docu-drama style, Faye’s voiced-over letter to a friend is punctuated by sharp black and white images of her rural hometown, held captive by wildly fluctuating prices for its crops.
Overview. Ngor is a young man living in a Senegalese village who wishes to marry Coumba. Ongoing drought in the village has affected its crop of groundnuts and as a result, Ngor cannot afford the bride price for Coumba. He goes to Senegal's capital city, Dakar, to try to earn more money and is exploited there.
Kaddu Beykat is a 1976 Senegalese film directed by Safi Faye. It is a groundbreaking movie that depicts the life of rural African women and the challenges they face in their daily lives. The film follows the story of a young woman named Vestine, who travels from her village to Dakar, the capital of Senegal, in search of work.
