In her docu-fictional debut shot in collaboration with her family and the residents of her Senegalese home village, Safi Faye chronicles life rhythms and economic consequences of an agricultural crisis.
By the time she produced Man Ya Say for German television in 1980, Senegalese filmmaker and ethnologist Safi Faye had already honed her skills through an impressive set of cinematic explorations of village life and beyond. Weaving together fiction and non-fiction, her film follows Moussa, a young student at Berlin’s Technische Universität, examining his social connections with loved ones in Senegal and fellow immigrant workers in Germany. In both cases, one question recurs: “When will you return?”
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In German and French with English subtitles
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