Mossane - 1996

Mossane 1996 Directed by Safi Faye

A beautiful 14-year-old girl has just reached marriageable age in a village in Senegal. She has many suitors; however, she is in love a poor student who has returned to the village while the university is on strike. At birth, she had been promised in marriage to Diogoye, who went away to work in France. Diogoye, who supplied her parents with many things over the years, has now sent a dowry, and asked that she be married to him in the village in his absence; she would then be sent to France.

Production Countries Germany , Senegal

Language Wolof

Spoken Languages French , Wolof

Gnere Drama

Release Date 18 May 1996

105 mins