French Senegalese writer and director Ramata-Toulaye Sy is practically glowing. On a Zoom call with The Big Issue, her eyes crinkle at the corners as she recalls how she swore she’d write, not just a love story, but an African love story and that it would be “the most beautiful and the most greatest love story” ever to be told.
The result is her first feature film, , which was received with acclaim at Cannes last year when Sy became only the second black woman in history to be nominated