Faat Kine

Faat Kine manages a sparkling gas station, drives an elegant car, lunches with smartly dressed friends, supports her “regal” mother as well as her son and daughter, who wish to study in Europe. Her success was not easily gained: she was forced to abandon her dream of becoming a lawyer when she was expelled from school because she had gotten pregnant by a charismatic professor. Later, the father of her second illegitimate child left her, taking all her life savings and landing himself in prison for fraud. Her children want to see her happily married to a good husband. At their graduation party both fathers appear claiming the paternal rights they had long ago forsaken. But Djip, Kine’s son, confronts them and sends them away. Now Kine has the opportunity to start a relationship with the man her children approve of.
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Script: Ousmane Sembene
Cinematography: Dominique Gentil
Editing: Kahena Attia Riveil
Sound: Alioune M’Bow
Music: Yande Kondou Sene
Actors: Venus Seye (Faat-Kine), Mame Ndumbe Diop (her mother), Ndiagne Dia (Djip, her son), Mariame Balde (Aby, her daughter), Αwa Sene Sarr (Mada), Tabara Ndiaye (Amy Kasse), Ibrahima Sane (Jean), Ismaila Ci
Production: Les Films Domirev
Producers: Wongue Mbengue
Art Direction: Moustapha Ndiaye
Format: 35mm Color
Production Country: Senegal
Production Year: 2000
Duration: 120
Contact: La Mediatheque des Trois Mondes, FranceT. +33 1 4234 9900F. +33 1 4234 9901cine3mondes@wanadoo.fr

Ousmane Sembene

He was born in 1923 and died in 2007. He is a Senegalese writer, chronicler and film director, best-known for his historical- political works with strong social comment. In the 1960s he developed an interest in the cinema and went to the Gorki Institute in Moscow to study film production. His Black Girl was the first film ever produced by an African filmmaker and won the Jean Vigo Award at the Cannes IFF 1966. He often turned his short stories and novels into films. During his career as a director, he received several international awards and his films were immensely popular in Africa.

Filmography

1963 Borom Sarret/The Cart Driver (short)
1963 L’Empire Songhai/The Songhai Empire (short doc.)
1964 Niaye (short)
1966 La Noire de.../Black Girl
1968 Mandabi/The Money Order
1969 (Traumatisme de la femme face a la) polygamie/
Women and the Trauma of Polygamy (doc.)
1969 Probleme de l’emploi a.k.a. Les Derives du chomage/
Unemployment Problems (doc)
1970 Tauw (short)
1971 Emitai/God of Thunder
1972 Jeux Olympiques de Munich/The Munich Olympic Games (doc.)
1974 Xala/The Curse
1976 Ceddo
1988 Camp de Thiaroye/Camp Thiaroye
1992 Guelwaar
1999 L’heroisme au quotidian/Daily Heroism (short)
2000 Faat Kine
2004 Moolaade