Ramata-Toulaye Sy
Ramata-Toulaye Sy is a French-Senegalese director and screenwriter who was born and raised in the France. She studied screenwriting at La Fémis, the largest film school in France, graduating in 2015. Sy was a screenwriter on Sibel (2018) by Guillaume Giovanetti and Çagla Zencirci and Our Lady of the Nile (2019) by Atiq Rahimi, among other projects. In 2020, she shot her first short film, Astel, which was screened at more than 80 festivals. Banel & Adama is her first feature film.