MAN SA YAY

Credits

Name: MAN SA YAY

Country: BRD/Senegal

Year of publication: 1980

Format: DCP

Language : OmeU

Duration: 59 min. Minuten

Series: 20. Afrika Film Festival Köln

Direction: Faye, Safi

Abstract

By the time she produced MAN SA YAY for German television in 1980, Senegalese auteur Safi Faye had already honed her skills through an impressive suite of projects that reflect on life in her home nation.
Effortlessly fluid in style, weaving together fiction, non-fiction, the essayistic and the epistolary, the film follows Moussa, a young student at Berlin’s Technische Universität. While he does connect with friends and lovers, he is primarily seen alone, working odd jobs, cooking or tidying his apartment. At home is where he reads the letters from family members and his partner in Senegal which structure the film.