Faat Kine

Faat Kine
Ousmane Sembene, Senegal, 2001, Color, 120’

One of the last works of Sembene, probably the best-known name of the African cinema, this film features once again women. Faat Kine is a successful working woman who climbed up the ladder and faced the difficulties all by herself. She is not a person who can easily share her life that she herself created, on the other hand, her old mother and her children that she raised and sent to university with her own efforts are still under her responsibility. Sembene sees his own film as “a eulogy to the African women’s daily heroism”, and the film provides an opportunity for those who want to see Africa’s contemporary daily life under a different, surprising and bright light, far from the stereotypes of newspapers and magazines.