Kaddu Beykat

Kaddu Beykat (Serer: "Voice of the Peasant";[2] also known as Lettre paysanne or Letter from My Village) 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.Ongoing drought in the village has affected its crop of groundnuts and as a result, Ngor cannot afford the bride price for Columba.[5] Kaddu Beykat is set in Faye's family village, Fad'jal (Fadial) in Thiès Region,[6] southern Senegal.[10] Kaddu Beykat played at the 1976 Berlin International Film Festival where it won the FIPRESCI Prize[11] and the OCIC Award.
Faye, photographed in 2004
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