Ramata-Toulaye Sy (French: [ʁamata tulɛi si];[1] born 1986/1987[2]) is a French-Senegalese film director and screenwriter.[3]
Ramata-Toulaye Sy was born in Bezons, Paris to Senegalese parents.[2][4] She studied at La Fémis in Paris, graduating in 2015.[2][4] She lived in Dakar, Senegal for several years after graduation.[2]
Sy's 2021 short film Astel was the winner of the Share Her Journey award at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival,[5] and the SACD Award and a Special Jury Prize at the 2022 Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival.[6]
Sy was a cowriter of the feature films Sibel[7] and Our Lady of the Nile (Notre-Dame-du-Nil),[8] before making Astel as her first directorial project.
Her feature debut, Banel & Adama, entered production in 2022,[9] premiered at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival and was also screened at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival.[10] The film received praise from critics who described it as an expressive debut from a promising director.[11][12]