BANEL & ADAMA

Senegal/France/Mali | 87 min | Pulaar with English subtitles | 12A

Banel and Adama are fiercely in love. The young couple live in a remote village in northern Senegal and for them, nothing else in the world exists. However, their perfect everlasting love seems on a collision course with their family’s traditions as drought strikes their community. Award-winning filmmaker Ramata-Toulaye Sy’s breathtaking debut feature follows the fated lovers in their quest to carve a life for themselves beyond the expectations of others.

Director: Ramata-Toulaye Sy
Starring: Khady Mane, Mamadou Diallo

The UK release is supported by the BFI, awarding funds from the National Lottery.

Community Screenings

Special Screenings

Lincoln Arts Centre | 2 May

Book Tickets

Watershed, Bristol | 16 March
T A P E Presents + Spoken Word with Muneera Pilgrim

The Ritzy, London | 15 March
Release Day Screening + Q&A

Ultimate Picture Palace, Oxford | 16 March
maona presents: Screening + music from Abdoulaye Samb

Chapter, Cardiff | 17 March
Reclaim The Frame: Screening + Creative Writing Workshop

Queens Film Theatre, Belfast | 18 March
Reclaim The Frame: Screening + Creative Writing Workshop

The Lexi, London | 20 March
DAILIES: Love, Duty & Reorienting Conventional Ideals

ODEON Manchester | 20 March
Screening + Pre-recorded Q&A

ODEON Covent Garden | 20 March Screening + Pre-recorded Q&A

ODEON Greenwich | 21 March
Screening + Pre-recorded Q&A

ODEON Wimbledon | 20 March
Screening + Pre-recorded Q&A

HOME Manchester | 22, 25, 27 March
Screening + Pre-recorded Q&A

Ciné Lumière, London | 28 March Screening + Pre-recorded Q&A

Cinema Listings:

“★★★★ This haunting modern fable moves with poetic grace”

— Total Film

“...such is the force of Sy’s imagery that the viewer, like the villagers, falls under a superstitious spell.”

— Sight & Sound

“★★★★ Every frame of this mesmerising debut casts a spell”

— Irish Times

Festivals & Previews

Dublin International Film Festival | 23 February
Irish Premiere + Q&A

BFI Southbank, London | 8 March
International Women’s Day + Q&A

Glasgow Film Festival | 9 March
Scottish Premiere + Q&A

Picturehouse @ FACT, Liverpool | 10 March
Preview + Q&A

Hyde Park Picturehouse, Leeds | 11 March
Preview + Q&A

Showroom Cinema, Sheffield | 12 March
Preview + Q&A

Watershed, Bristol | 13 March
Preview + Q&A

HOME, Manchester | 14 March
Preview + Q&A