Mossane is a 1996

1996 in film

Major releases this year included Scream, Independence Day, Fargo, Trainspotting, The English Patient, Twister, Mars Attacks!, Jerry Maguire and a version of Evita starring Madonna.-Events:...

 Senegalese

Cinema of Senegal

The cinema of Senegal is a relatively small film industry which experienced its prime from the 1960s through to the early 1980s, but has since declined to less than five feature films produced in the last ten years.-Early films: 1955-1969:...

 drama film

Drama film

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 directed by Safi Faye

Safi Faye

Safi Faye is a Senegalese film director and ethnologist. She was the first Sub-Saharan African woman to direct a commercially distributed feature film. She has directed several documentary and fiction films focussing on rural life in Senegal.-Early life and education:Safi Faye was born in 1943 in...

. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard

Un Certain Regard

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 section at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival

1996 Cannes Film Festival

-Jury:*Francis Ford Coppola *Nathalie Baye *Greta Scacchi, actrice *Michael Ballhaus *Henry Chapier *Atom Egoyan *Eiko Ishioka *Krzysztof Piesiewicz *Antonio Tabucchi...

. Unlike some of Faye's earlier films which use a documentary

Documentary

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 style, Mossane is purely fictional.

Synopsis

Mossane (Magou Seck) is a beautiful 14 year old girl from a rural Serer

Serer people

The Serer people along with the Jola people are acknowledged to be the oldest inhabitants of The Senegambia....

 village, beloved by many including her own brother and Fara, a poor university student. Although she has long been promised in marriage to the wealthy Diogaye, Mossane defies her parents' wishes and falls in love with Fara. On her wedding day, she refuses to marry Diogaye and tragedy ensues.

Cast

• Abou Camara - Oncle Baak
• Moussa Cissé
• Mbaye Diagne
• Alpha Diouf - Ngor
• Alioune Konaré - Fara
• Daouda Lam
• Ibou N'Dong
• Isseu Niang - Mere Mingue Diouf
• Magou Seck - Mossane
• Medoune Seck
• Guèye Seynabou
• Moustapha Yade - Samba