Ben Diogaye Bèye

Ben Diogaye Bèye was born in 1947. Trained in Paris, he worked for his country's radio and headed the sports and culture desk of the Senegalese press agency, then learned filmmaking on set, as an assistant to Ousmane Sembène, Ababacar Samb and Djibril Diop Mambéty. He wrote the original screenplay of a major 1988 film about a massacre of tirailleurs. His first feature, in 1980, was honoured at Locarno and then at Ouagadougou; he returned to the latter as a prizewinner in 2005.

In the catalogue 1

• Short filmLes Princes noirs de Saint-Germain-des-PrésBen Diogaye Bèye · 1975Cinema