[HIGHLIGHTS] In Cannes, the portrait of a Fulani woman in search of emancipation

"Banel and Adama" is the first feature film by French-Senegalese director Ramata-Toulaye Sy. The film is set in a rural village in northern Senegal.

Sy is one of seven women filmmakers competing at the Cannes Film Festival this year. "Banel is a character who fell from the sky, who has no place in this village," the director says of her character. "The first part of the film is really the dream of Africa, its nature, its light," she adds.