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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.
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.
Oct 20, 1976 · 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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- Safi Faye
- 1976-10-20
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.
Feb 3, 2021 · One of the most internationally renowned African film directors, Safi Faye was the first woman from Sub-Saharan Africa to achieve, with Kaddu Beykat, commercial distribution of a feature film. Thanks to its markedly poetic content, formal hybridisation, and political reach, it received the FIPRESCI Award in Berlin, the French Georges Sadoul ...
Mar 8, 2022 · Safi Faye was the first woman from sub-Saharan Africa to have a film internationally distributed.
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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.
