After having obtained a Master’s degree in Performing Arts with a specialization in Cinema and a Master’s degree in Screenwriting, Ramata-Toulaye Sy took part in a workshop on Equal Opportunities at La Fémis in 2009-2010, where she attended the screenwriting course from 2011 and graduated in 2015. She worked as a screenwriter on the film Sibel, presented at the Locarno Film Festival in 2018, and Our Lady of the Nile, which won a prize at the 2020 Berlinale. Ramata-Toulaye currently works in Dakar and Paris. In 2020 she directed her first short film, Astel. At present she is working on the development of Banel & Adama, her first feature film.