Letter from My Village

Letter from My Village (1976)

Kaddu Beykat

Ngor is a young man living in a Senegalese village who wishes to marry Coumba. Ongoing drought in the village has affected its crop of groundnuts and as a result, Ngor cannot afford the bride price for Coumba. He goes to Senegal's capital city, Dakar, to try to earn more money and is exploited there. He returns to the villagers and shares his experiences of the city with the other men. The story, which shows the daily lives of the villagers, is told in the form of a letter to a friend from a villager, voiced by Faye.

Date of release
1976-01-02
TMDB
7.5 / 10 (2)
Runtime
1h 38m
Genres
Drama, Documentary
Director
Safi Faye

Casting

Interesting facts

Kaddu Beykat is a 1975 Senegalese film directed by Safi Faye. It was the first feature film made by a Black African woman to be commercially distributed and brought international recognition for its director. Centred on a romance, it chronicles the daily lives of people in a rural Senegalese village.

Background

Kaddu Beykat is set in Faye's family village, Fad'jal (Fadial) in Thiès Region, southern Senegal. Financing for the film came from the French Ministry of Cooperation and it was made with a crew of three people. It is a mixture of documentary and fiction. For some parts of the film, Faye gathered villagers together, gave them a topic of conversation and proceeded to film them. She took advice from the villagers on what to film.

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