TIMPI TAMPA

Adama Bineta Sow
Senegal | 2024 I Original version with English subtitles | 83 min

SAT 15 NOV
16:30 SINEMA TRANSTOPIA

20-year-old student Khalilou lives alone with his mother Rama in Dakar. She suffers from cancer after years of using skin-lightening creams to conform to the prevailing beauty ideal promoted by models on billboards and Senegalese television. One day, while meeting his best friend Abdel at the basketball court, Khalilou spots a poster for the country’s most popular beauty contest, Miss Étudiantes. Khalilou makes a bet with his mother: if dark-skinned students win the competition, she will take control of her life and finally stop lightening her skin…

ADAMA BINETA SOW earned an MBA in Project Management before turning to filmmaking. In 2015, she directed her first short film AVEUGLÉ PAR UNE AVEUGLE, which was part of the official selection of the Espace Junior at FESPACO 2017. In 2019, she released her second short film À NOUS LA TABASKI, which won Best Short Film at the Women’s Film Festival in Fontenay-le-Fleury, Paris. Her feature debut TIMPI TAMPA premiered at this year’s FESPACO Festival, receiving an honorable mention in the “Perspectives” section.