Biography
Ramata-Toulaye Sy (born 14 June, 1986; Bezons) is a Senegalese film director and screenwriter. She is most noted for her 2021 short film Astel, which was the winner of the Share Her Journey Award at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival, and the SACD Award and a Special Jury Prize at the 2022 Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival. Her feature debut, Banel & Adama, entered production in 2022, and is slated to premiere at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival.
Complete Filmography
Timpi Tampa
2025
Co-Writer
After his mother develops cancer from dépigmentation, Khalilou fights toxic beauty standards. Disguised as Leila, he enters the "Miss Students" pagean...
Banel & Adama
2023
Screenplay, Director
Chaos ensues shortly after a young man in a remote village in northern Senegal refuses to accept his role as the new village chief.
Astel
2021
Director, Screenplay
While helping tend her family’s herd of cows in a northern region of Senegal, a 13-year-old girl faces changes that threaten her tight bond with her f...
Our Lady of the Nile
2020
Screenplay
Rwanda, 1973. In the prestigious catholic institute 'Notre-Dame du Nil', perched on a hill, young Rwandan girls study to become the elite of the count...
Sibel
2019
Writer
25-year-old Sibel lives with her father and sister in a secluded village in the mountains of Turkey’s Black Sea region. Sibel is a mute, but she commu...
Dans la cour des grands
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Screenplay