
Person
Safi Faye
- Specialty
- Directing
- Birth
- November 22, 1943 · 79 years
- Death
- February 22, 2023
- Origin
- Dakar, Senegal
Professional Trajectory
Safi Faye was a Senegalese film director and ethnologist. Faye directed many feature films, and today is recognized as one of Sub-Saharan Africa’s most prominent directors. Her 1996 film Mossane received the Un certain regard award at Cannes.




