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Khady Sylla (Dakar, March 27, 1963 – Dakar, October 8, 2013) was a Senegalese writer of two novels, short work, and filmmaker.
Khady Sylla was a women who recorded women’s silence into revolutionary Spring and listened to the light in the dark spaces where women work and where women go mad. When she died, Sylla was at work, with her sister, Mariam Sylla, on a new documentary about their grandmother, Penda Diogo Sarr.
Director: Une simple parole. Khady Sylla was born on 27 March 1967 in Dakar, Senegal. She was a director and writer, known for Une simple parole (2014), Une fenêtre ouverte (2005) and Colobane Express (2000). She died on 8 October 2013 in Dakar, Senegal.
- Director, Writer
- March 27, 1967
- Khady Sylla
- October 8, 2013
Khady Sylla was born in 1963 in Senegal and studied philosophy in Paris at École Normale Supérieure from 1986 to 1992. She became interested in a literary career, taught basic education to migrant workers and wrote many short stories and a novel, Le Jeu de la Mer (The Game of the Sea), before embarking on film production.
Nov 14, 2021 · Director and Novelist Khady Sylla. In 1999 the West African country of Senegal was at a monumental crossroads between the past and future cultures of cinema. Even legendary film directors like...
May 3, 2023 · The fiction of Senegalese writer and filmmaker Khady Sylla not only used speech to create worlds and ways of being in the world, but used speech as a world and a character in its own right.
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May 16, 2022 · An Open Window (Khady Sylla, 2005, 52 min.) is a film about mental illness among Dakar’s street wanderers. After shooting, Sylla fell ill, “seeing what others don’t see—the dislocated eye, the ancientness of the glass bubble, a sky descended too low, a horizon far too near.
