With her debut feature film Atlantique (2019), winner of the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival, followed by Dahomey (2024), winner of the Golden Bear at the Berlinale, she has established herself as one of the most distinctive voices in international auteur cinema and plays an active role in shaping new perspectives within African and diaspora cinema.

Her politically engaged cinema transcends the boundaries between genres and formats, reflecting her dual identity and a proudly embraced creolity.

By founding the production company Fanta Sy, based in Dakar, she continues her artistic commitment to the African continent.

Her work is exhibited at the Frac Réunion (2020), at La Collection Lambert in Avignon (2021/2022), in London at No.9 Cork Street - Frieze (2023) and at Lafayette Anticipations in the group show Coming Show.

She has also taken part in major group exhibitions: House of digital art; Port Louis (2023), Frac Île de France (2023), Lagos Biennial (2024).

In 2016, she was awarded the Prix Yvon Lambert for young artists. In 2019, she was a finalist in the Talents Contemporains competition organised by the Schneider Foundation and in 2021 she was awarded the Mondes Nouveaux programme with the Pays Tremblés collective.