Angèle Diabang Brener
Senegal, France

About the Film
After twenty-five seemingly happy years of marriage, Ramatoulaye, a devoted wife and mother, is shocked when her lawyer husband takes her daughter’s friend as a second wife. The decision sparks a profound clash between tradition and modernity, forcing her to confront the meaning of love, loyalty, and freedom.

Year: 2025
Runtime: 104m
Director: Angèle Diabang Brener
Writers: Mariama Bâ, Angèle Diabang Brener
Cinematography: Amath Niane
Editors: Yannick Leroy, Hyacinthe Tiemtore
Producers: La Chauve-Souris, Astou Films, Karoninka / Angèle Diabang
Cast: Serge Abessolo, Coumba Coulibaly, Assymby Jean-Baptiste Diabang

Angèle Diabang Brener is a Senegalese film director, screenwriter, and producer born in Dakar in 1979. She began her career as a camera operator and editor before making her first short documentary, My Beautiful Smile (2005), which screened at the Encounters Documentary Film Festival. She is the founder and director of the production company Karoninka.