Films

BANEL & ADAMA

Women in Trouble: Love and Desire in Francophone Cinema
(NR) France/Senegal/Mali/Qatar – 1 hr 27 min – with subtitles  
2023 · d. Ramata-Toulaye Sy
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Starring Khady Mane, Mamadou Diallo

A young couple resists their community’s expectations—for him, the tribal leadership; for her, domestic duties—to live on their own terms. But their bond is tested when a series of possibly supernatural misfortunes befall their village. This feminist fable was Senegal’s submission to the 96th Oscars.

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This screening is part of the Women in Trouble French and Francophone Film Festival, presented with Film Studies at Bryn Mawr College and supported by the Albertine Cinematheque, a program of Albertine Foundation & Villa Albertine. Interested in hearing more? Listen to the Banel & Adama episode on the Mawrters at the Movies podcast. The views and opinions expressed by the Mawrters at the Movies podcast are those of the hosts and do not represent those of Bryn Mawr Film Institute or Bryn Mawr College.